About this episode: While actual combat was, indeed, nightmarish, being at home - helpless, constantly wondering about loved ones, fending for one’s selves - proved to be equally harrowing. That particularly was the case in the American South - the Confederacy - which served as the primary stage for the four-year-long conflict. And so we return to those eleven seceded states whose political leaders sought independence but, instead, sowed the seeds and reaped the whirlwind for Southern turmoil and destruction. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Judah P. Benjamin George Washington Rains Sidney Lanier Blind Tom Bethune Benjamin Butler Alexander H. Stephens Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide,The Civil War: A History of the War between the Statesfrom Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving