Jumat, 10 November 2017

ACW Book Review: My Old Confederate Home

My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans  by Rusty Williams, University Press of Kentucky, 2010, $34.95  THE CIVIL WAR DIDN’T really end until the last of its veterans passed away, well into the 20th century. The fact that so many former Rebels endured as well as they did in their twilight …

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