Calamity at Frederick

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"The loss of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 is one of the Civil War's enduring mysteries. This meticulous study presents a bold new interpretation of the evidence surrounding the orders' creation, distribution, and loss outside Frederick, Maryland, in September 1862. Rossino provides new information pinpointing where the orders were lost and offers a provocative hypothesis about who may have lost them, and the impact on Confederate operations. This is the Confederate companion to The Tale Untwisted by Gene M. Thorp and Alexander Rossino, which told the story from the Union perspective"--