![]() ![]() ![]() Horowitz's rambling first-person narrative takes constant sidetracks and is made human with its self-effacing descriptions of his own foibles. He also mulls over his own theories about the lasting legacy of the war, arguing that it was as much a cultural battle between the mores of North and South as a military one. Stonewall Jackson given by the Sons of the Confederacy. As part of a self-imposed year-long ""scheme"" to examine the war's contemporary meaning, he does such things as visit a birthday party for Gen. He spent time among the hard-core buffs, the groups who put on period clothes and ""re-enact"" battles. turf to tackle the subject of our own Civil War and how its history is actively replayed by scores of grown men. Horowitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign war correspondent, returned to his native U.S. ![]()
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