Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

After years of filing dispatches from foreign war zones, Tony Horwitz comes home to a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire and propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on 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 “hard-core” reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war; and in the book’s climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their