SuitabookStonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run
Michael Hemphill
- Reading
- Pause at the shift from reenactment to real battle and ask what changes for Stonewall. You could also distinguish the other traveller’s stated aim from the story’s own view of it.
- Themes
- Changing the course of history: Stonewall must try to stop a Confederate reenactor from changing the outcome of the Civil War, using his knowledge of the Battle of Bull Run. The premise makes historical knowledge relevant to a struggle over the past’s outcome, but does not establish how the book evaluates either character’s position.
- Worth knowing
- The story moves from a reenactment to the actual Battle of Bull Run, and a character is identified as an ardent Confederate. How battle violence is depicted is not clear.