Download or read book The Confederate Reader written by Richard Barksdale Harwell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful self-portrait of the Confederacy is filled with carefully chosen and annotated selection of contemporary battle reports, general orders, letters, articles, sermons, songs, travel observations, and much more. Illustrated. "...an excellent anthology, worthy of the imitations it will engender." — The New York Times.