The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital

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Summary: Where were you when I needed you.
Review: I set off for a trip to Richmond, VA last year confident that I could pick up a copy of this useful little book while there.

I was astonished to find that I couldn't buy a copy in any of the downtown bookstores or museum shops. How I would have loved to have had this history and guide with me to make me fully aware of how each place I visited was connected to some stirring or painful act of our great national tragedy.

This book is a fine companion piece to Margaret Leech's wonderful "Reveille in Washington".

Emory Thompson has written a remarkably interesting and able history and one that no visitor to Richmond should be without.