Table of Contents

Contents Preface The Foretelling Dixie's Land * Guiding the Whirlwind * Shadowy Words, Shadowy Meanings * Visions of Breakers Ahead * The Struggle for a Confederate Democracy The Opening Guns * Men but Not Brothers * Law and Disorder The Season of Lee *"Proving Our Loyalty by Starvation" *"We Are Done Gone Up the Spout" The Year of Decision * The Enemy Within * Cotton Communism, Whiskey Welfare, and Salt Socialism The Struggle to Hold On * The States in Their Sovereignty * The Power and the Ignominy in Richmond *"Growlers & Traitors" An End to Valor * The End? Abbreviations Used in the Source Citations Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

William C. Davis is a prolific historian, retired history professor from Virginia Tech, and was for more than twenty years a magazine and book publishing executive. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including Three Roads to the Alamo and Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America. 

Reviews

Jeffrey D. Wert author of Gettysburg: Day Three A brilliant, perceptive, and masterful study of the Confederacy. Look Away! engrosses and it enlightens. It is a splendid book. Jay Winik National Review An important resource for students of the Civil War South...Davis makes a convincing case that the Confederacy at home, much like its northern counterpart, was often dangerously divided. Gary W. Gallagher The Washington Post [A] solid...comprehensive history of the Confederacy.

Jeffrey D. Wert author of Gettysburg: Day Three A brilliant, perceptive, and masterful study of the Confederacy. Look Away! engrosses and it enlightens. It is a splendid book. Jay Winik National Review An important resource for students of the Civil War South...Davis makes a convincing case that the Confederacy at home, much like its northern counterpart, was often dangerously divided. Gary W. Gallagher The Washington Post [A] solid...comprehensive history of the Confederacy.