I bought this because I saw it on the shelves when we were nosing around Royal Holloway's new library, as it looked just the sort of well-written and researched micro-history I enjoy about a period that interests me. It does worry me slightly that I do have a regard for some of the heroes of the confederacy like Lee and Stonewall Jackson due to their gallantry, romanticism and quixotic pursuit of a lost cause. Then I remind myself that they were fighting to preserve slavery, one of the great evils of humanity and I'm back in the room.
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