Novel of a Southern couple who return to Tennessee to recover their identity.

This highly literate account by the son of President Zachary Taylor follows the author's Confederate commands in all three major theatres of the war, and provides a unique view of the Reconstruction period. Taylor possessed literary art that approached the first rank.-Douglas Southall Freeman.

Allen Tate's portrayal of the tragic figure of the Confederacy's only president is fast-paced and compelling. This highly readable biography presents not only a life of Jefferson Davis but an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the Confederate cause from the viewpoint of a sympathetic Southern writer.

The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby.-Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.

A memoir of Heros von Borcke and the Army of Northern Virginia.

Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston battery, there was rice and there were slaves-the twin pillars upon which colonial Carolina wealth was built. But by the Civil War both began to crumble along with the planter aristocracy they supported. Seed from Madagascar chronicles the linked tragedies of the prominent Heyward family and South Carolina's rice industry while underscoring the integral role African Americans played in the fortunes of the planter class and the precious crop. As much about race as about rice, Duncan Clinch Heyward's account offers keen insights...