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On your day the first images of the Civil Warfare were fired, a mob in Richmond clambered on top of the Capitol to improve the Confederate flag. Four years later, another flag was raised in its place while metropolis burned up below. A 13-year-old female compared the actors and stripes to "so many bloody gashes". This richly detailed, absorbing reserve brings to life the years in which Richmond was the image of Southern self-reliance and the theater for a theatre as wonderful, sordid, and tragic as the conflict itself. Sketching on a range of archival options, Ashes of Glory portrays Richmond's enthusiasm through the voices of troops and statesmen, preachers and prostitutes, slaves and slavers. Masterfully orchestrated and finely rendered, the result is a separate and powerful work of social history.
