Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at

Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at

Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War vetera

Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the

During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains—and in the