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Article: Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America. Edited and with an introduction by Menahem Blondheim. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 291. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-253-21847-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-253-34737-8.)
No one could say that Benjamin Wood was an uncomplicated man. "The Northerner who would side with the South was also an outspoken moralist who made a fortune as a lottery operator, and a most responsible provider who set records for reckless high-stakes gambling," Menahem Blondheim writes in his introduction to Wood's novel, Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession. Among other things, Wood ...