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By Lochlainn Seanrook - 326 pages - Illustrated PaperbackIf eyes are the windows to the soul then award-winning historian Lochlainn Seabrook's artistic literary work, Heroes of the Southern Confederacy: The Illustrated Book of Confederate Officials, Soldiers, and Civilians, is a glimpse into the very heart of the Old South. With some 1,200 antique photographs and drawings of Confederate individuals, this invaluable visual volume humanizes the traditional 19th-Century Southerner, thereby increasing the reader's understanding of the Confederacy and her people: who they were, what they believed, and why they fought.
Contemplate the faces, expressions, and clothing of hundreds of men, women, and children in this unique "you-are-there" style book that brings home the realities of Left-wing U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's attack on the Constitution and the American people - all through rare and faded pictures dating from the Victorian Era (where possible, carefully repaired, cleaned, and enhanced by the… Read More