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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Southern Fiction

Click here for the short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. I mentioned it at our last meeting as another good piece of literature about the South during the Civil War.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell got the title from the poem Cynara by Ernest Dowson.

Click here for more info on Mitchell and the writing of GWTW.

Zouave

A picture of a Zouave uniform. The red of the pants is one of the colors considered by the Tarleton twins' troop.

Cravat

Click here for pictures and a description of a cravat, like the one Gerald O'Hara wears.