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Justus Scheibert, A Prussian Observes the American Civil War: The Military Studies of Justus Scheibert. Translated and edited by Frederic Trautman. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1348-0. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xv, 250. $34.95.
During the U.S. Civil War, a number of European powers sent officers to visit both sides and observe military operations. They were the subject of a fine study by Jay Luvaas, published in 1959. Of the observers themselves, perhaps the best known was Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, the British observer whose diary became a major contribution to the literature on the war.
The Prussian observer, Captain Justus Scheibert, is someone who is more quoted than read, and he is most notable for one quotation, that being...