LAND THEY FOUGHT FOR: SOUTH as CONFEDERACY by CLIFFORD DOWDEY/CIVIL WAR/1955 1st

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THE LAND THEY FOUGHT FOR: THE STORY OF THE SOUTH AS THE CONFEDERACY. BY CLIFFORD DOWDEY. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. First Edition. Scarce. A nice copy of this scarce and fascinating book. Published 60 years ago, this book has long been out of print. Such a nice copy is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the Dust Jacket: "The Civil War was fought for thirty years before the mounting antagonisms between the sections exploded in the clash of arms. From Nullificatoin in 1832 until Fort Sumter in 1861 constituted a long period of cold war, even by today's standards. Men who opposed one another in the opening phases of the conflict had gone to their rewards when the shooting began, and the generation in the South which was to die had not been born when South Carolina first defied the Union. The quarrel was passed on, like the baton in a relay race, from generation to generation, until the men who settled it in the bloodiest violence had little notion of what had started it. In The Lad They Fought For, Clifford Dowdey surveys the gathering storm--the disparity between North and South economically, South Carolina's defiance of the federal Tariff Act of 1832, the stark horror of Nat Turner's Rebellion and its subsequent harvest of fear, and the conflict between ways of life within the South itself. In this stirring and thoughtful work we see Davis, Calhoun, Toombs, Stephens, Jackson, Lee, all waiting to take their parts in the tragedy that was to be played out on their own beloved land. From Mr. Dowdey's story of the Civil War itself--from Fort Sumter to Appomattox--emerges the unforgettable picture of a young army that grew into the dedicated and valiant force that fought for Lee and valiant force that fought for Lee--and for the land of the South. This fourth volume to appear in The Mainstream of America Series deals with the Civil War and its origins as they grew out of and affected the South, as well as the devastating effects of the war on the currents of our society today. This is history, accurate and moving, seen through the eyes of the men who lived it--and told in a masterly fashion by one of today's most eminent historians. Clifford Dowdey, a Virinian descended from a distinguished family, has written a number of books, both fiction, of Southern history, including the widely acclaimed Bugles Blow No More and Experiment in Rebellion." According to Wikipedia: "Clifford Dowdey (1904–1979) was an American author of fiction and nonfiction dealing with the American South, Virginia and especially the Civil War era. Clifford Dowdey was born in Richmond, Virginia January 23, 1904 and died there May 30, 1979. The Richmond Newspapers, the Richmond Times Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader eulogized him as The Last Confederate. His father was descended from immigrants surnamed O'Dowda of County Galway, Ireland, and his mother from an English settler of Jamestown. His father worked for Western younion and his mother was a housewife. Four of his grandmother’s brothers were Confederate soldiers. His grandmother lived with his family until she died when Dowdey was age 19. Her reminiscences spurred his lifelong interest in the American Civil War and the history of Virginia.[1] He attended Columbia University from 1921-1925. He worked for about a year as a newspaper reporter and book reviewer for the Richmond News Leader. He returned to New York City and worked as an editor for various pulp magazines (Munsey’s, Argosy and Dell) from 1926 to around 1935. About 1933 he started writing seriously on what eventually would become his first novel "Bugles Blow No More.” Leaving the magazines, he and his wife moved to Florida for a season and then to Richmond, Virginia where he finished the novel. For the rest of his life, he lived in Richmond and worked as a writer of historical fiction and history. He reviewed others' historical works in academic journals, such as "The Journal of Southern History" and " The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography." Even though he had no formal tr... read more

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