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Confederate Reckoning

Power and Politics in the Civil War South

  • Prologue: The Confederate Project
  • 1. Who Are the People?
  • 2. The Brothers’ War
  • 3. Antigone’s Claim
  • 4. Soldiers’ Wives and the Politics of Subsistence
  • 5. Women Numerous and Armed
  • 6. “Amor Patriae”
  • 7. “Our Open Enemies”
  • 8. The Fall
  • Epilogue: Confederate Reckoning
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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Awards

  • Finalist, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History
  • 2011 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center
  • 2011 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
  • Co-winner, 2011 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
  • 2011 Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians
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