Originally published: Pantheon Books, ©1998

Includes index

Confederates in the attic -- North Carolina : cats of the Confederacy -- South Carolina : in the better half of the world -- South Carolina : shades of gray -- Kentucky : dying for Dixie -- Virginia : a farb of the heart -- Tennessee : at the Foote of the master -- Tennessee : the ghost marks of Shiloh -- Mississippi : the minié ball pregnancy -- Virginia and beyond : the Civil Wargasm -- Georgia : gone with the window -- Georgia : still prisoners of the war -- Alabama : only living Confederate widow tells some -- Alabama : I had a dream -- Strike the tent

After years of filing dispatches from foreign war zones, Tony Horwitz comes home to the Blue Ridge Mountains only to be awakened by the crackle of musket fire