Dear Mr. Cornwell, I have recently reread your American Civil War books and, though I enjoyed them greatly with respect to plot and authenticity, I was troubled by the fact that I really didn’t like the main charactor. It’s hard to understand a person like Starbuck being as passionate about a cause, at it’s heart, as wrong as that of the Confederacy. One can admire Lee’s loyalty to Virginia and understand the common solider’s wish to defend his home and family but Starbuck’s only reason to fight for a cause that enslaves and degrades vast numbers of human beings seems to be to defy his father. It would be similar to an Englishman fighting for the Germans during World War II because he didn’t like the English class system and could turn a blind eye to the evil of the Nazis. Will you explore this further, if in fact you write more books in this series? How do you feel about the charactor of Starbuck? Thank you, Sean McCarthy