Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
Recommended by Asha Rangappa and Robert Maguire
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in American Civil War, Civil War, and History.
When prizewinning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing frontline dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his o...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in American Civil War, Civil War, and History.
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Asha Rangappa
“Please take this sad news as an opportunity to read, or reread, Confederates in the Attic. It is a remarkable book that is sadly still very relevant 20 years later | To understand the context of this statute in Virginia history and the significance of what this means, I highly recommend the book Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horowitz”
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