SOURCE: A review of Marching On, in Punch, Vol. 174, April 25, 1928, pp. 475-76.

In the following review, the critic praises Boyd's rendering of the American Civil War in Marching On despite the book's familiar and romanticized material.

I had thought that the species was extinct. Here we have once again a story of the American Civil War, told from the Southern point of view. Its simple name is Marching On (Heinemann), and its author, against whom I hold no previous convictions, is James Boyd. I hasten to add that he has produced an eminently readable piece of work, ancient as his material is. Indeed I felt sometimes that I must surely be reading some old favourite over again. He employs all the best traditional romantic stuff. Here we have again the aristocratic Southern planter, Colonel Prevost, his charming daughter Stewart, and his only son; the neighbouring family of Fraser...