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A Critique A Critique In the book Civil War in the Ozarks, the authors, Phillip W. Steele and Steve Cottrell, describe life’s perils and strategies during the Civil War in the Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri. Both authors have a rich family background with the Civil War. Phillip W. Steele’s family fought on the Confederate side of the war and Steve Cottrell’s family fought for the Union forces. With both authors having common interest in preserving Ozark’s history, they put together a historical review of the Civil War in the Ozarks. In my opinion a “Reb” and a “Yank” (respectively) getting together to write on such an event in history is remarkable. Although, I would imagine that is why the book sticks with so many facts, rather than to approach the aspects of the lives involved. The book would have been more enjoyable to read, if they had mingled a bit more of life’s stories within the battle events described. According to the book, “Phillip W. Steele and Steve Cottrell have extensively researched the battles that took place between 1861 and 1865 in the writing of this book. They look at the heroes, outlaws, and peacemakers war, book, civil, ozarks, battles, battle, history, authors, been, students, one, map, found, fought, about, very, type, teaching, story, steve, pictures, painting, ozark, interesting, give, forces, federals, family, during, different, country, carthage, between, arkansas, approach, although, union, top, together, stories, steele, section, recommend, read, put, piece, photos, phillip, outlaws, opinion