A Virginia Family Faces Seccession and War
Brent Tarter has given us a sad and very human tale of war, separation, and anxiety, followed by an all-too-brief period of happier times. . . . I suspect readers will feel a sincere debt of gratitude to the skilled historian who has brought their moving story to light. Civil War Book Review Beautifully and sensitively written, Daydreams and Nightmares takes on a subject of great importancesecessionand does so in a way that foregrounds the enormous personal and political dilemmas that surrounded Virginians eventual turn to the Confederacy. Amy Murrell TayLor, University of Kentucky
Brent Tarter is a founding editor of the Library of Virginias Dictionary of Virginia Biography and the author of The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia (Virginia).