Their Town (review of Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861

Their Town

CULPEPER, Virginia, is thirty miles west of Fredericksburg where I live. To get there you drive out toward Spotsylvania Mall and continue on past other burgeoning retail centers at Chancellorsville and Wilderness. As these once-hallowed names attest, you are on what some developer

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

Their Town

CULPEPER, Virginia, is thirty miles west of Fredericksburg where I live. To get there you drive out toward Spotsylvania Mall and continue on past other burgeoning retail centers at Chancellorsville and Wilderness. As these once-hallowed names attest, you are on what some developer