Confederate Citadel

While Mary A. DeCredico does not explicitly state her objective in this overview of the story of Richmond, Virginia, as capital of the Confederacy, she clearly does not intend this brief—151 pages of text—work to be assumed to be exhaustive. Rather, the book touches on many topics, illustrating them by extensive use of quotations from contemporary sources. Readers will not find here the detail of other works by Ernest B. Furgurson or Stephen V. Ash, but instead will discover a rewarding and well-presented look in brief compass. Confederate Citadel demonstrates able use of a wide variety of manuscript and published primary sources, offering an intimate portrait of life in the city. DeCredico also makes the point that Richmond's history through the war is a metaphor for the course of the Confederacy itself. What had been a proud small metropolis on the James River became, by 1865, a crowded, vermin-infested community

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