| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865. By Stephen V. Ash. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xiv, 289 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-312-29493-X.)
Reconstruction is but dimly glimpsed by most Americans. It is shrouded by a fog of tragic era mythology, on the one hand, and densely argued academic studies, on the other. This book penetrates that fog to offer a well-composed, often poignant glimpse of life in the South during the war's final days and the early months of Reconstruction.	. . .

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