Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Blurb

Confederates in the Attic is a work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the American Civil War and investigates the ties in the United States among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously. He reports on attitudes on the Civil War and how it is discussed and taught, as well as attitudes about race.
Among the experiences Horwitz has in the book:
Horwitz's first day with reenactors, led by Robert Lee Hodge, a particularly hardcore reenactor. He is a waiter.
Lee-Jackson Day in North Carolina
Touring Charleston, South Carolina, including Fort Sumter National Monument
Studying a Union soldier on a monument celebrating Confederates in Kingstree, South Carolina
The aftermath of the murder of Michael Westerman, a Todd County, Kentucky man murdered by a gunshot fired from a car containing black teenagers, for having a Confederate flag on the back of his pickup truck
A reenactment of the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia
A visit with the historian and novelist Shelby Foote, author of The Civil War: A Narrative. He had become more widely known after appearing in Ken Burns's Civil War documentary