Our friend Jerry Dunford has called our attention to a new book. Entitled Give This Book to a Yankee! A Southern Guide to the Civil War for Northerners, it’s written by Lochlainn Seabrook and published by Sea Raven Press. What makes this book especially interesting to readers of this blog is that it comes with a foreword written by Karen Cooper of the Virginia Flaggers. Jerry’s been so kind as to reproduce on his blog Karen’s introduction:
Y’all might also be interested in what the publisher placed on the backjacket of the book:
Hmmm.
Happy reading.
Crossroads 
I’m guessing that the circle of folks who refer to Mr. Seabrook as the “American Robert Graves” is rather small.
Oooh. I look forward to reading more about “so-called ‘slavery.'”
Cooper was good enough to explain in a recent podcast interview that she knows how slaves in the antebellum era felt because deductions are made from her paycheck.
LOCHLAINN SEABROOK= fake name
It’s his real name. I assure you. I’ve met him.
Can’t wait to read it! I’m always up for a good chuckle. File it somewhere near Dave Barry or Jeff Foxworthy.
What was it that P. T. Barnum said?
Shouldn’t the real title be “Give This Book to the Compost Pile. The Southern Guide to Self-Publishing Nothing of Importance.” ?
“…A forty-year background in the American Civil War, Confederate studies and biography, anthropology, theology, thealogy (?), Jesus, the Bible, the Law of Attraction, etymology, the paranormal, geneaology, and comparative religion and mythology.”
In other words, a dedicated historian?
Fitting that the cover art shows Confederate “cavaliers” at Pea Ridge galloping into a hail of Federal gunfire. “Celtic” impetuosity ala Jamieson and McWhiney, writ large?
So many books, so little time.