Writing War and Reunion

"This expertly curated new collection brings together Simms's writings on the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. This valuable assemblage will aid modern scholars immensely as they seek to understand how the region's preeminent novelist and journalist thought about the future of the region even as his own reputation was beginning to fade into the past."—Jonathan Daniel Wells, University of Michigan

"The many facets of Simms's complex mind are on full display here—all recorded in Simms's inimitable style, and all superbly edited and contextualized."—John Mayfield, Samford University

"Writing War and Reunion fills a major gap in the record of an important American writer. War, defeat, and Reconstruction were more than a subject for Simms; they were an existential crisis that tested his prose, his imagination, and his moral character."—John Grammer, University of the South, Sewanee

"Jeffery Rogers has done commendable work editing Simms's Civil War-era editorials and placing them in the proper historical context. Writing War and Reunion is essential reading for anyone interested in the American Civil War."—Sean R. Busick, Athens State University

"Jeffery Rogers shines welcome light on a long neglected period of a prolific writer's life."—America's Civil War