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Telling the story of the Confederacy's capital, from July of 1861 to the end of the Civil War, Ashes of Glory portrays not only such luminaries as Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee but also the rank and file of Richmond: the preachers, merchants, matrons, nurses, newspapermen, POWs, prostitutes, bootleggers, and spies, who kept the city bustling even when its destiny seemed most grim. 16 pp. of photos. 3 maps.… (altro)
Ernest Furgurson has written an excellent history of Richmond, Va., capital of the Confederacy, and how it weathered the Civil War. The book is informative, somewhere between interesting and riveting. Its cast of characters -- the majority of the Confederate political leadership -- bears way too much resemblance to the present situation in our country, where so many in government and commerce spoke "patriotic" rhetoric to lead us into a misguided war (fought valiantly and at great cost by the troops on the field and with great suffering to their families), almost purely for their own highly misguided self-interest. Another example of the powers that be seeming not to have any idea of or interest in the consequences of their actions, use of power, or greed. ( )
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By the last spring of the American Civil War, New York World correspondent George Alfred Townsend had reported the conflict from the Virginia Peninsula, Cedar Mountain, the Shenandoah Valley, and the lines around Petersburg, and had considered it from Europe, an ocean away.
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There, on a January day 125 years after Appomattox, L. Douglas Wilder, the grandson of Richmond slaves, was sworn in as the first elected black governor of any state of the Union.
Telling the story of the Confederacy's capital, from July of 1861 to the end of the Civil War, Ashes of Glory portrays not only such luminaries as Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee but also the rank and file of Richmond: the preachers, merchants, matrons, nurses, newspapermen, POWs, prostitutes, bootleggers, and spies, who kept the city bustling even when its destiny seemed most grim. 16 pp. of photos. 3 maps.
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