Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: McPherson Folly

James McPherson has misconstrued the importance of the Battle of Anietam by asserting that its importance reached across the Altantic and influenced England and France not to aid the Confederacy. Queen Victoria declared in 1861 that England would remain neutral. Confederate Ambassador, William Lowndes Yancey knew before he left on his mission that the odds were against him. Southern cotton was no longer the only source for European mills. Egypt was already in the market.McPherson has tried to "up the stakes" by making claims about the importance of the battle to Lincoln's and European decisions that just are not so. He is just another northern writer trying to polish the ineffectual fighting image of the yankees, at the expense of the South.