![]() ![]() What strange historical passions could induce a gainfully employed and coherentsounding young waiter to spend his weekends and much of his income pursuing a "hardcore" experience of the Civil War, a quest that involves sleeping in battlefield ditches, eating authentically wormy period grub, and studying old photos to perfect his imitation of a bloated Confederate corpse? Play-acting aside, what still-vivid historical memories provoked a black teenager to shoot and kill Michael Westerman, a white father of newborn twins in Guthrie, Kentucky, whose pickup truck displayed the Confederate flag? ![]() ![]() CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.īy Tony Horwitz. ![]()
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