As I was reading the excellent book Pottery Works: Potteries of New York State's Capital District and Upper Hudson Region by Warren Broderick and William Bouck (1995), I began to recognize that among the various New York State pottery makers who served in the Civil War there was a pattern among them of particularly great bravery and strong fighting spirit. As a result, many of the potters were desperately wounded, imprisoned, or suffered terribly for many years afterward as a result of the War. This is all well documented in this book. I wonder if the bravery and combativeness of the potters, as a group, was unique; perhaps it was not. But I noted this in my review of this book published in Northeast Historical Archaeology, Volume 24, 1995. Paul Huey Cohoes, N.Y.