Title: Confederates In The Attic
Subtitle: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
First published: 1999
Description: 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.
Subjects: Travel, Influence, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, History, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, influence, United states, history, military, Confederate states of america, history, Southern states, description and travel, American humor - peoples & cultures, United states - travel essays & descriptions - general & miscellaneous, Southern u.s. - travel, United states civil war - resolution & aftermath, Regional studies - southern u.s., 20th century american history - social
Places: Southern States, United States
People: Tony Horwitz (1958-)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865