Abstract
Sutherland's choice of places to perch is a good one. Confederate and Union troops alike occupied Culpeper County. Culpeper prospered from feeding Confederate army; and it was one of first occupied regions in Confederacy, one in which Union army experimented with treating civilians rough. It was close to several major battles of war and site of battles of Cedar Mountain and Brandy Station. Furthermore, as Sutherland's thorough research demonstrates, Culpeper County's inhabitants, soldier and civilian, left a wealth of sources-family papers, soldiers' letters and diaries, newspapers, church and court records, tax rolls, claims to Southern Claims Commission-with which to recreate community's life. Sutherland's book is subtitled the Ordeal of a Confederate Community, and it's a subtitle worth noting. First, because Sutherland does think of Culpeper County as a Confederate community; time and again he assures us that most of its people-indeed, most Virginians-were committed Confederates. There is little in this book about class and racial conflicts that other
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