A review by susieliston
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

4.0

This book elicited a lot of different emotions; it was hilarious, infuriating, poignant, maddening, morbid, gross, fascinating, informative, and just plain sad. Of course it helps to be a bit of a Civil War freak, which I became at age twelve after reading Gone with the Wind (which gets a chapter...scary to learn that many people come to Atlanta to visit the graves of Scarlett and Rhett !)

(one caveat...the chapter "Dying for Dixie" is about a present day murder trial, and was sort of a sore thumb, I thought. I found it rather unpleasant and it threatened to bog me down, glad I finally just let myself skip the rest of it)