A Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Condederate StatesW. Blackwood and sons, 1865 - 300 páginas A visit to the cities and camps of the Confederate States is [FitzGerald Ross's] own record of what he saw and learned of the South at war. As an honest (though over-sympathetic) picture of the Confederacy during the latter half of 1863 and the early months of 1864, it is one of the ... most informative of the relative few inclusive records left by outside observers of the Confederacy in its own time. |
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