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This is an abridged edition of Mrs. Logan s classic "Reminiscences of a Soldier" "s Wife. "What the author called there the grateful features of her experiencethe political cauldron of Washington, the cruel choices imposed by the Civil War, the...

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and...

Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did not...