Reviews for Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman's Travels Through the South

The average rating for Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman's Travels Through the South based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-08 00:00:00 James Dicks lowry does it again: compiles an endless parade of the most interesting, bizarre, and positively human anecdotes from a period in history that likes to feign a lot of modesty, chivalry, and sexual naivete. while it may be maddening to some to read through endless snippets of stories and courts martial which often have no resolution or conclusion, the sheer quantity and variety of activity encompassed provides evidence that the world now is not so much different than it was then ~ and that's really all lowry's after. read along with lowry's Stories the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-27 00:00:00 Lea Porter Much as I would love to describe this book as a "laundry list of deviancy", I can't quite bring myself to do it. Yes, it reads like a laundry list, with descriptions of court cases, arrests and charges of indecency tumbling one after another with hardly a sentence in between. But there are hints behind the lists of some interesting characters and fodder for some good stories. Be warned: He is non-judgmental to a fault, and left me feeling at times that he was being too lighthearted about things that I find it hard to be lighthearted about (like rape and pedophilia).