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Confederates in the Attic (1998) is a work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the American Civil War and investigates the ties in the United States among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously. He reports on attitudes on the Civil War and how it is discussed ...
His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback (1987), Baghdad Without a Map (1991), Confederates in the Attic (1998), Blue Latitudes (AKA Into the Blue) (2002), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (2008), [2] Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011), [3] and Spying on the South ...
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. [1] Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.
Turning movement helped Confederates win at Second Bull Run. Captured 12,000-man Union garrison at Harper's Ferry. Helped save Confederate Army at Antietam. Commanded Confederate right wing at Fredericksburg. Famous flank march routed Union Army at Chancellorsville.
George H. Thomas (Virginia) of the Union Army was one of the most important generals of the conflict, playing a crucial role in Western Theater. Montgomery C. Meigs (Georgia) was Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the war, and his ability to keep the Army supplied proved instrumental in ensuring victory.
The Flight of the Confederates: A Sudden Alarm and Stampede, 1865 lithograph in the Illustrated London News depicting flight of Davis including cavalry and camp slaves. Silas was with Benjamin Chandler when he was a part of a detached escort of guards for Confederate President Jefferson Davis when Davis fled Richmond, Virginia.
The Confederate States of America (1861–1865) only had one president, Jefferson Davis.In various American Civil War alternate histories where the Confederacy won the American Civil War and continued its existence, various people have served in the office of the presidency of the Confederacy.
The Confederates and their descendants became notable in the business and political life of the region. [12] It is not known how many Confederado immigrants came to Brazil, but unprecedented research in the records of the port of Rio de Janeiro, by Betty Antunes de Oliveira, shows that around 20,000 U.S. citizens entered Brazil between 1865 and ...