Word: refights
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Armed with years of reading and research, Williams determined to refight the war from the opening shots at Fort Sumter. The result is no amateur's awkward foray. The first two volumes of Lincoln Finds a General (two more to come) already look like the soundest military history of the North yet written...
...tubby medical chief of the Veterans' Administration, loves to tell tall tales (he files his favorites in a little black book, which he carries around with him). An ardent student of military history, he also likes to debunk such heroes as General Custer (TIME, Aug. 18), and to refight old battles (once, toting an armload of Civil War books, he visited Gettysburg and reconstructed the battle so vividly that his account is now the official one taught at the Army War College...