Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War Friday, August 14 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War Friday, July 17 2009.

• In the footloose way of a 12-year-old, John Sergeant Wise ambled out of the governor's mansion into the sunny warmth of an Indian summer afternoon.