Download or read book A Southern Writer and the Civil War written by Jeffery J. Rogers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lies at the intersection of Civil War history and the history of American literature. Rogers challenges prevailing assumptions about the nature of Southern identity during the American Civil War and describes an important period in the life of William Gilmore Simms, one of nineteenth-century America's most widely read authors.