The biggest fault of this little book (for me) was not the many licenses taken with the known facts. After all, it is a work of fiction, and a writer can make the South prevail at Gettysburg, for the sake of a good story. The real faults are in the very narration, i.e., the point of view shifts that are pretentious and annoying--and in the descent into romantic hogwash. Perhaps the readers of sappy romances will like the shift in Amelia's character and even believe it possible that such could occur, but it is not very satisfying to a reader who wants more from a book than sap. I just couldn't buy the premise, the point of views, and the denouement. I wish it were otherwise, because I wanted to like this.