R. David Carlson is lecturer of history at Troy University. He is coauthor of Plain Folk in a Rich Man’s War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia. He has also authored several peer-reviewed articles on Confederate Georgia and Civil War conscription policy.
Congress of States is an impressive undertaking, recovering a crucial and complex year in the history of the United States. Unfolding in time, the documents show a would-be nation taking shape before our eyes, one symbolic and substantive step at a time. --Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America