To draw attention to a snippet of your review, I am so glad you pointed out the fact that the Confederacy was not exactly the evil empire the schools like to paint it as today. I am an amateur historian and a direct decedent of a couple of Confederate Soldiers, it pisses me off to no end that so many people think the whole war was about slavery. Yeah, it ended up being painted that way by the war criminal Lincoln, and it did ultimately became a fine sidebar to the war, but it was not the basis of the war. I would have loved to see the South win, simply because I firmly believe we would not have half the problems we have today because of the out of control Federal Government, instead we have more control as States as to how much and where our money goes.