“April 20, 1861-July 1, 1864. A Rockbridge County lawyer reflected the concerns of those citizens who lived in a part of Virginia which was often threatened by the war but invaded only once.”
“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…