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Article: We've Got to Get Out of This Place.(Civil War and society)
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- Southern Cultures
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- March 22, 1999
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Tony Horwitz Tours the Civil War South
And what petty precision to quibble about locations in space or chronology, who to care or insist Now come, old man, tell the truth: did you see this? Were you really there? ... This [Far ain't over. Hit just started good.... A dream is not a very safe thing to be near.
--William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
As Tony Horwitz describes it in his new book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, one day he simply woke up in the field. On a late winter morning, a group of reenactors followed by a film crew fought their way up the road in front of his old house in the foothills of the ...