description: After years of filing dispatches from foreign war zones, Tony Horwitz comes home to a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire and propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of "hard-core" reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their
language: English
title: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
titlecomplete: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
characters: John C. Breckinridge, Caleb Senter, Alberta Martin, Stacy D. Allen, Robert Livingstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Michael Westerman, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert Penn Warren, Henry Morton Stanley, Karen Meinhold, James K. Polk, Julia Ward Howe, George Pickett, Robert Lee Hodge, Pleasant Crump, Freddie Morrow, Abe Stice, Denmark Vesey, Stonewall Jackson, Shelby Foote, William Tecumseh Sherman, Braxton Bragg, Edward Hopper, Damien Darden
genres: Civil War, Politics, Historical, Travel, American History, American Civil War, War, Nonfiction, History, Humor
ratings_count: 23642
places: Selma, Alabama, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Marblehead, Massachusetts, Manhattan, New York City, New York, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Sharpsburg, Maryland, Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, Corydon, Indiana, Franklin, Tennessee, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, Virginia, Fitzgerald, Georgia, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Montgomery, Alabama, York, Maine, Kingstree, South Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Indiana, Prince William County, Virginia, Clarksville, Tennessee, Elba, Alabama, Ruby Ridge, Idaho, Antietam, Maryland, Alabama, Waco, Texas, Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, Chickamauga, Georgia, Lincoln, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, Kentucky, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Salisbury, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, Guthrie, Kentucky
publisher: Books on Tape