Dr. Robert G Miller, MD

Bob Miller grew up filled with the lore of the Land of Lincoln and the Civil War. So his interest in genealogy led him to follow his great, great grandfather's trail to its end in the Battle of Resaca in ever greater detail, filling this book with his comrades accounts of their experiences. Lessons from a career in computer analysis, especially that every assumption must be found out by feeling for the exceptions and that there is always another bug, trained him to be wary of firsthand accounts...See more

Bob Miller grew up filled with the lore of the Land of Lincoln and the Civil War. So his interest in genealogy led him to follow his great, great grandfather's trail to its end in the Battle of Resaca in ever greater detail, filling this book with his comrades accounts of their experiences. Lessons from a career in computer analysis, especially that every assumption must be found out by feeling for the exceptions and that there is always another bug, trained him to be wary of firsthand accounts of only one participant and especially to search for multiple firsthand accounts behind those often repeated secondhand stories. So the book took four years of research with painstaking scrutiny-and no certainty of knowing the last word on what happened at Resaca. See less