Promotional Information

Winner of the 1990 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Military Order of the Stars and Bars, and winner of the 1991 Founders Award, Museum of the Confederacy.

About the Author

Edward Alexander is professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of numerous books, including The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies, The Holocaust and the War of Ideas, and Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship.

Reviews

"A treasure of Civil War 'personal memoirs' . . . altogether livelier and more irreverent than anything in Grant's and Sherman's books."--New Republic

"Alexander's new memoirs are relaxed and engaging, lacking the self-importance that mars the memoirs of a good many soldiers with weaker claims to distinction than his, and refreshingly candid about his own frailties and those of some of the Confederacy's most revered commanders."--American Heritage

"Alexander's vigorous prose and astute personal observations . . . have made Fighting for the Confederacy a new landmark in Civil War historiography, one that no historian of the period can afford to ignore."--Journal of Southern History

"All serious students of the Army of Northern Virginia . . . owe a debt of gratitude to Gary Gallagher. . . . This book is destined to become a classic. It is simply must reading."--Blue and Gray

"Gary W. Gallagher, in publishing Fighting for the Confederacy, has given Civil War historians one of the most unexpected and delightful surprises in many years. . . . It is a book that must be read."--Louisiana History

"The publication of Fighting for the Confederacy constitutes the most important addition to Confederate historiography in years. . . . A pleasure to read. . . . [It] will join the list of essential readings for students of the Civil War."--Civil War History

"Unquestionably will join the ranks of those standard works that every serious student of the Civil War will want to read."--Georgia Historical Quarterly

"What a marvelous book! . . . Because of Gallagher's editorial efforts everyone interested in the Confederacy has ready access to what may very well be the most outstanding Confederate military memoir."--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

[A] new landmark in Civil War historiography, one that no historian of the period can afford to ignore.

"Journal of Southern History"

YA new landmark in Civil War historiography, one that no historian of the period can afford to ignore.

"Journal of Southern History"

YAltogether livelier and more irreverent than anything in Grant's and Sherman's books.

"New Republic"

Alexander's new memoirs are relaxed and engaging, lacking the self-importance that mars the memoirs of a good many soldiers.

"American Heritage"

"[A] new landmark in Civil War historiography, one that no historian of the period can afford to ignore.

"Journal of Southern History""

"Alexander's new memoirs are relaxed and engaging, lacking the self-importance that mars the memoirs of a good many soldiers.

"American Heritage""

[A]ltogether livelier and more irreverent than anything in Grant's and Sherman's books.

"New Republic"

The publication of "Fighting for the Confederacy" constitutes the most important addition to Confederate historiography in years.

"Civil War History"

This book is destined to become a classic. It is simply "must" reading.

"Blue and Gray"