Injustice on Trial: Second Bull Run, General Fitz John Porter's Court-martial, and the Schofield Board Investigation That Restored His Good Name

General Fitz John Porter, cashiered for misbehavior before the enemy by a politically driven court-martial in 1863, following Second Manassas, undertook a decades-long fight to have his conviction reconsidered. Finally, a board headed by General John M. Schofield cleared Porter's good name. Records of the Schofield trial were rare until Anders made this fresh study of the case.