Writing War and Reunion: Selected Civil War and Reconstruction Newspaper Editorials by William Gilmore Simms

A collection of Civil War and Reconstruction era journalism by one of the most popular and acclaimed authors of the antebellum South.

Nineteenth-century writer William Gilmore Simms was once considered the South's premier literary figure, with achievements including more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American history. Less well known are his newspaper writings, which include fascinating and trenchant work from the era of the Civ...