Mr.Cornwell-Greetings from the Maine Woods! Of recent moment I have compleated the book “The Fort” and found it most pleasing. May I join the long line of people thanking you for a very good’history book done up as fiction’? I had bought it for my wife, who has not the patience to plow thru a turgid historical account. But a good fictional account, she will read from and learn. Might I proffer here, you have done a fine job with the facts and the narration. The ‘liberties of fiction’ have not detracted from it. I can easily forgive the few scattered errors(but not the ‘pillow-biters’ term- Sink me!that does not ring well!) I do have a fair bit of background to the era, so I am sure of the ground, when I offer that you have done a fine job of the story line. The men are ‘verbally dressed’ in outline, your ladies finery, or lack of, is just pencilled in: but your shipwork/and things Navy, are a wonder to read. And given your writing background, it is not to be wondered at! You did a fine job of giving a true and balanced view of the officers and men of this Expedition; too often a writer will assign halos to the rebels, and horns to the British. Or even worse, make themselves a 21st Century Parson Weems! I think you plowed a true and fair furrow thru the conflicting weeds of time, history, and myth. I have spent a good many years educating the publick on the men, of both sides, of this War. You need only guess, to judge the reaction when I note to ‘flock’ of D.A.R ladies, that Mr. Washington ‘loved a glass and a willing lass’! And that quote is from a Virginia Officer at Ft. Necessity! Let me close, with again, my thanks. Trust to God, but Row for Shore Mr.Charles Anthony Durham at Maine Member, 74th Regiment, Argyle Highlanders(re-created) ‘Company Tailor, Loyalist & Refugee’