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Confederates in the attic : dispatches from the unfinished Civil War / Tony Horwitz.

Horwitz, Tony, 1958- (Author).

Summary:

Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. He joins "hardcore" reenactors; witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war; finds that Andersonville Prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of an eccentric pilgrim. Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, this book brings alive old battlefields and new ones--classrooms, courts, country bars--where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 0679439781
ISBN: 9780679439783
ISBN: 9780733608520
ISBN: 9780679758334
ISBN: 0733608523
ISBN: 067975833X
Physical Description: ix, 406 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, ©1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Confederates in the attic -- North Carolina: Cats of the Confederacy -- South Carolina: In the better half of the world -- South Carolina: Shades of gray -- Kentucky: Dying for Dixie -- Virginia: A farb of the heart -- Tennessee: At the Foote of the master -- Tennessee: The ghost marks of Shiloh -- Mississippi: The Minié Ball pregnancy -- Virginia and beyond: The Civil Wargasm -- Georgia: Gone with the window -- Georgia: Still prisoners of war -- Alabama: Only living Confederate widow tells some -- Alabama: I had a dream -- Strike the tent.