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.

• ContentsPrefaceThe ForetellingDixie's LandGuiding the WhirlwindShadowy Words, Shadowy MeaningsVisions of Breakers AheadThe Struggle for a Confederate DemocracyThe Opening GunsMen but Not BrothersLaw and DisorderThe Season of Lee"Proving Our Loyalty by Starvation""We Are Done Gone Up the Spout"The Year of DecisionThe Enemy WithinCotton Communism, Whiskey Welfare, and Salt SocialismThe Struggle to Hold OnThe States in Their SovereigntyThe Power and the Ignominy in Richmond"Growlers & Traitors"An End to ValorThe End?Abbreviations Used in the Source CitationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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.

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.

• ContentsPrefaceThe ForetellingDixie's LandGuiding the WhirlwindShadowy Words, Shadowy MeaningsVisions of Breakers AheadThe Struggle for a Confederate DemocracyThe Opening GunsMen but Not BrothersLaw and DisorderThe Season of Lee"Proving Our Loyalty by Starvation""We Are Done Gone Up the Spout"The Year of DecisionThe Enemy WithinCotton Communism, Whiskey Welfare, and Salt SocialismThe Struggle to Hold OnThe States in Their SovereigntyThe Power and the Ignominy in Richmond"Growlers & Traitors"An End to ValorThe End?Abbreviations Used in the Source CitationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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.

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.

• ContentsPrefaceThe ForetellingDixie's LandGuiding the WhirlwindShadowy Words, Shadowy MeaningsVisions of Breakers AheadThe Struggle for a Confederate DemocracyThe Opening GunsMen but Not BrothersLaw and DisorderThe Season of Lee"Proving Our Loyalty by Starvation""We Are Done Gone Up the Spout"The Year of DecisionThe Enemy WithinCotton Communism, Whiskey Welfare, and Salt SocialismThe Struggle to Hold OnThe States in Their SovereigntyThe Power and the Ignominy in Richmond"Growlers & Traitors"An End to ValorThe End?Abbreviations Used in the Source CitationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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.