Dear Bernard

Regards the American Civil War I always wondered what your thoughts were of “little” Phil Sheridan and his ability as a General. In the recent news with what happened in DC there was a guy photographed with a Confederate flag in the Capital and of course the closest they got was Lee’s bad old man Jubal Earlys Army to Fort Stevenson. The only other time of course was the British in 1814. I wondered if you were ever tempted to write about either incident in the future whether with Starbuck and Early or Sharpe with Ross ?

Regards

Geraint

P.S if you’ve not read it then The Man Who Captured Washington by John McCavitt and Christopher George is a good military biography on Robert Ross. Wellington obviously held him in high esteem and it seems he was a very mild mannered and humane man