![]() ![]() "Losers in civil wars tend to keep fighting their wars by any means," he said. ![]() While "Confederates in the Attic" is a spellbinding look at a regional peculiarity, Horwitz said that something else - something larger and eerily familiar - struck him personally. Such groups "bring people together," one member tells Horwitz, "just like the war did." They are proud to sleep in ditches once laden with Confederate corpses and starve themselves to acquire the near-dead look of Johnny Reb prisoners of war.Ī chic side of this "unfinished Civil War" has also emerged in Children of the Confederacy clubs that meet in high schools, and in kitsch-laden living rooms where Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy gather religiously. Especially in rural areas, Horwitz discovered, the Civil War continues to be fought through re-enactments by "hard-core" buffs who not only put on battles but also soak their uniform buttons in urine to oxidize the brass. ![]()
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