Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War from New York Times bestselling

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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War from New York Times bestsellingPropelled 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