Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in History "A feast for Civil War buffs. . . . One of the best firsthand records of the Confederate experience. . . . Electrifying."--Walter Clemons, Newsweek "A great epic drama of our greatest national tragedy."--William...
An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy.