An essential Civil Rights-era account of a witness to the Oxford riots and Mississippi's nadir

The history of a university professor's daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964

A famous book exploriing the significance of events in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60s by an astute historian who witnessed many of them in person, including the riots on the campus of the University of Mississippi ... the significance of the murder of three civil-rights workers in the summer of 1964. The author lived in Mississippi for twenty-eight years while a member of the faculty of the Univ of Miss, from 1936 to 1965.

Robert Augustus Moore, aged 25, gave his life for the Confederacy at Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. No one knows where he was buried or whether he was buried at all, and the young Mississippi farmer would be no more than a name on an obscure muster roll had he not kept faithfully a diary of his wartime experiences. This remarkable record not only discloses the personality of its author, but illuminates the daily life of the Confederate soldier. An important Confederate document.... The book contains a roster of the Officers and Men of Company “G”, 17th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry with the name, rank, birthplace, occupation, residence, age, marital status and remarks (entry dates, discharge dates, dates wounded or killed, promotion information, etc.) “...the diary of an educated Mississippian whose candid observations ended abruptly with his death at Chickamauga.”—Civil War Books

In this closely documented study, Professor James W. Silver examines the role of the church in the South during the Civil War: What part it played as a powerful social institution in shaping the mind of the South, bringing on secession, and promoting the war, and to what extent its efforts succeeded or failed.