| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

Confederate Home Front: Montgomery during the Civil War. By William Warren Rogers Jr. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xiv, 208 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8173-0962-4.)

William Warren Rogers Jr.'s new book on Confederate Montgomery is a modest, though welcome, addition to the growing literature on the Confederate home front. Through a meticulous study of personal papers and official documents, Rogers provides a thorough presentation of the political, economic, and cultural life of the Confederacy's first capital. Rogers organizes his presentation chronologically and topically. Roughly the first quarter of the book examines life in Montgomery just before the war and during its brief tenure as the capital of the Confederacy. In these chapters, Rogers offers about as thorough an explanation as one would want of why the Confederate leadership first selected, then rejected Montgomery as their capital city. . . .

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