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p14. This old book cries out for a good map of the Port Hudson earthworks, but such a map didn't exist in 1963. I'm doubtful it exists today. I visited the site a few years ago and was far more impressed than anticipated. I'll have to check my photos. So many Southern stories exist now as oral traditions that were not written down at the time, so documentary evidence is not always what we'd like, and partisan stories are subject to the game-of-telephone effect compounded by generations of bias.

Not bad. This is from Donald S Frazier's 2011 book Thunder Across the Swamp.

#ACW This image, on p63 of Cunningham's book, should have been placed about 30pp earlier in the text. Not that it would have much helped, as it is best viewed with a microscope. It's also viewable in a digital image as I've provided here, into which we can zoom in. It's awfully hard to match up the battle descriptions with this overly crowded map.

Found a few pertinent map images from my 3 June 2021 visit to Port Hudson. You really ought to go there yourself, you know.

And here's the reviewlet of the book. #ACW

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5253644888