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Title	:	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Author	:	Tony Horwitz
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 406 pages
Published	:	February 22nd 1999 by Vintage (first published March 3rd 1998)
Categories	:	Military History. Civil War. History. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. War. American Civil War. Humor

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When prize-winning 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 front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart. 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. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; 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 odyssey the 'Civil Wargasm.' Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and new ones 'classrooms, courts, country bars' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways. Poignant and picaresque, haunting and hilarious, it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the mythic South and to the dark romance of the Civil War.

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Original Title:	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
ISBN:	067975833X (ISBN13: 9780679758334)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Julia Ward Howe, George Pickett, Braxton Bragg, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert Lee Hodge, Pleasant Crump, Robert Livingstone, Abe Stice, Caleb Senter, Denmark Vesey, Robert Penn Warren, Michael Westerman, Damien Darden, Freddie Morrow, Karen Meinhold, Shelby Foote, Edward Hopper, James K. Polk, Henry Morton Stanley, Stacy D. Allen, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Alberta Martin, John C. Breckinridge
Setting:	Appomattox Court House, Appomattox, Virginia,1865(United States) Manhattan, New York City, New York,1882(United States) Antietam Creek,1862(United States) …more Hardin County, Tennessee,1862(United States) Cemetery Ridge,1863(United States) Pennsylvania State House,1776(United States) Monument Avenue,1995(United States) Fredericksburg, Virginia,1862(United States) Lincoln, Alabama,1951(United States) Prince William County, Virginia,1862(United States) Corydon, Indiana,1863(United States) Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,1863(United States) Fort Sumter, South Carolina,1861(United States) Salisbury Prison,1864(United States) Guinea Station, Virginia,1863(United States) Spotsylvania County, Virginia,1863(United States) Prince William County, Virginia,1861(United States) Sharpsburg, Maryland,1862(United States) Chickamauga, Georgia,1863(United States) Marblehead, Massachusetts,1636(United States) Charleston, South Carolina,1905(United States) Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland,1812(United States) Fort Wagner, South Carolina,1863(United States) Charleston, South Carolina,1695(United States) Charleston, South Carolina,1824(United States) Charleston, South Carolina,1822(United States) Morris Island,1861(United States) Kingstree, South Carolina,1910(United States) York, Maine,1906(United States) Columbia, South Carolina,1865(United States) Christian County, Kentucky,1808(United States) Todd County, Kentucky,1993(United States) Guthrie, Kentucky,1995(United States) Waco, Texas,1993(United States) Ruby Ridge, Idaho,1992(United States) Franklin, Tennessee,1864(United States) Guthrie, Kentucky,1996(United States) Clarksville, Tennessee,1996(United States) Cemetery Ridge,1913(United States) Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia,1864(United States) Washington, D.C.,1958(United States) Washington, D.C.,1969(United States) Vicksburg, Mississippi,1863(United States) Vicksburg, Mississippi,1981(United States) Vicksburg, Mississippi,1894(United States) Vicksburg, Mississippi,1942(United States) Antietam, Maryland,1862(United States) Harpers Ferry, West Virginia(United States) Salisbury, North Carolina,1998(United States) Atlanta, Georgia(United States) Fitzgerald, Georgia(United States) Elba, Alabama Montgomery, Alabama(United States) Selma, Alabama(United States) Southern States(United States) …less

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Tony Horwitz's grandfather was an immigrant - like many before him he left his country and went to look for a new life in America. Although he could neither speak nor read English when he arrived from Russia, Horwitz the elder nonetheless purchased a book - a tome on the Civil War, which he continued to pore over until his death at 102. When young Tony was growing up, his father read him stories about the war instead of fairytales, which inspired him to paint a mural of the war in the attic of

A good read, if one believes (or wants to believe) that Southern boogeymen, dressed in woolen uniforms, their archaic muskets gleaming in the sun, are waiting to launch a second "War for Southern Independence" against the sacred Union. O.K., maybe that's a bit extreme. But I think Horowitz treats the South the way travel writer Horace Kephart once treated Southern Appalachian mountaineers -- as a peculiar race of people, consumed by some sort of divine madness that sets them at odds with

If you read my reviews, by now you will see they frequently have an anti-southern tinge to them. This one won't disappoint either. This was a well researched book that takes readers through modern day civil war sites, cities, forts and battlegrounds. The title doesn't quite fit the book; however,mainly because the main theme is not so much these southerners who want to fight the war all over again but how the history of this time period is reinvented to fit people's philosophies. For the South

Since I've spent most of my life in the South, and since I'm a fan of Gone with the Wind, I almost always find myself rooting for the Confederates. [edit: I NO LONGER FEEL THIS WAY. WHAT A STUPID THING TO THINK. I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A DUMB BUTTHOLE.] This is, of course, fully 150 years after the war, which I did not have to live through, and after the Emancipation Proclamation, which I also did not have to wrestle with. It's difficult to analyze my ancestors' ideals with my 21st century

In the late 1990s author Tony Horowitz explored the South and its relationship with the Civil War. He starts with battle re-enactors and moves on to visit museums and historians. He covers contemporary issues, walks battlefields, reports on monuments and the feelings they evoke. He meets notables and everyday people, civil rights leaders and those active in keeping southern culture alive.Horowitz holds your attention throughout. You come away with the feeling that mourning and saluting the lost

OK, so I'm on a Civil War road trip with my Significant Other, following the official Virginia state "Lee's Retreat" tour and reading to him from "Confederates in the Attic" to pass the time. The section we were reading dealt with the bigger-than-life owner of an old general store that he had turned into a museum (of sorts). I said "this is really over-the-top -- Horowitz maybe exaggerated this guy to make a better story." S.O. said: "we should try to find the place" and just then, we pass an

After waking up one morning at his Virginia home to the sounds of a Civil War reenactment, Tony Horwitz launches a search to find out how the Civil War is viewed and remembered in the American South. In his quest, he spent time with a band of really hard-core Confederate reenactors who went on crash diets to get the authentic look of starved soldiers who had been on lengthy campaigns. He also attended a Ku Klux Klan rally in Kentucky, an American history class in Selma, Alabama, and traveled