bevgray

I just finished Black Knights of the Hudson. I knew the officer class on both sides of the civil war had been colleagues and buddies before the conflict, but did not know some of them were related. I particularly enjoyed the battle scenes - they were well described and came across as authentic.

Was Timothy MacKendrick an entirely fictional character or was he based on a historical personage? If the latter did he go on to gain supreme command of the US army, as the novel implies?