[Constitution Day]

Thanks for the info! I will have to check it out.
I think my local library actually has a copy, believe it or not!

I have never read Mary Boykin Chesnut's diary; just never got around to it.
I do think that *some* slaves were "happy and loyal" but that they were a definite minority.
I understand Chesnut's plantation "Mulberry" is still standing and is an interesting tourist destination, as is the Museum of the Confederacy.
Since they are both within close driving distance for me (Camden SC and Richmond, respectively), I plan to visit them next summer.

There are so many other books on the War Between the States I need to check out, but haven't had as much time since my daughter was born.
I am just getting back into it in the last couple of months.

If you are interested in other books on American history, an excellent non-War related book I just finished was
Roanoke: Solving The Mystery of the Lost Colony, by Lee Miller.
I live in NC and vacation near Roanoke Island every year.
I've read many books on the "Lost Colony" story, and Miller has come closer than anyone in determining what happened to them.
Probably closer than anyone ever will, unless their remains are ever found, which is doubtful.

Thanks again for sharing that with me!

FRegards,
CD

[kaylar]

He also wrote, The South When it Was Southern, and The Last Rebel Yell. I haven't read those two.

[kaylar]

We're hoping (some decade) to be able to take a whole summer and just tour civil war sites. We've seen Pea Ridge, WestPort, Boonville, and a few memorials to dead confederates, but poverty has restricted us to battle grounds in MO and north AR. There's just not a whole lot in MO. The Confederate Old Age home is barely an hour's drive, we've seen that, but that's about it. (Needless to say...it no longer has any residents, being a museum now!)

He wants to see Gettysburg ; I want to see Shiloh and Vicksburg.