John's review
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
John's review
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
John's review
rating:
This book was a fun, adventurous journey and I would recommend it but is also unnerved me in some respects. The Civil War still grips our interest but for many Horwitz encountered it certainly remains an unfinished war, one that continues and one desired to begin anew. I knew there were “re-enactors” but was ignorant that the hobby?? was practiced with such devotion and intensity and spread so far and wide across the South.
I did enjoy Horwitz’ dissection of the preponderance of several myths and his disclosures of what in fact actually occurred; Sherman's march to the sea a case in point.
But the battle sites where our brethren fought and died are currently being ploughed under in the name of progress, subdivisions and fast food chains. Having visited several sites myself, any new excursion would demand diligent planning so as not to end up at a burger joint!!
More disconcerting, a chapter near the end of the book frames a jeremiad against the forces of a cultural struggle o...more
I did enjoy Horwitz’ dissection of the preponderance of several myths and his disclosures of what in fact actually occurred; Sherman's march to the sea a case in point.
But the battle sites where our brethren fought and died are currently being ploughed under in the name of progress, subdivisions and fast food chains. Having visited several sites myself, any new excursion would demand diligent planning so as not to end up at a burger joint!!
More disconcerting, a chapter near the end of the book frames a jeremiad against the forces of a cultural struggle o...more
