His words, a series of vignettes following the author’s travels through a South that was quite unwilling to shed its Confederate past, resonated with me especially as a southerner with ancestral ties to the Confederacy. Like many, my first introduction to his writing was assigned: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War - required reading years ago for a UCLA undergraduate course on the Civil War. I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but we did have a friendly exchange or two on the Interwebs. Each individual tribute I read contributed to a chord sounding in unison: he was kind, generous, gracious, humble, encouraging…the list of virtues goes on, and on. Horwitz touched the lives of so many in such positive ways. In this moment of profound loss, they might find some comfort knowing that Mr. My thoughts of course, are with his family. I have spent the better part of my day reading through the tributes to Tony Horwitz.
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