Preview: Schmiel & Simione with Schneider, “Searching for Irvin McDowell”

Just in for preview is Searching for Irvin McDowell: Forgotten Civil War General, by Frank P. Simione,Jr. and Gene Schmiel, with E. L. “Dutch” Schneider. It’s billed as “The first biography of this important Union General in the early days of the Civil War,” and I’ll soon have an interview with the authors. But for now –

You get:

• 244 pages of text in 10 chapters.
• 2 appendices, discussing McDowell’s stay at Liberia in Manassas, and his unique taste in headwear.
• Bottom of the page footnotes.
• 10 page bibliography (published works, National Tribune and magazine articles, two websites – and no, I’m not in it)
• Index
• 14 Hal Jesperson maps
• 7 images