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You know that crazy awful battle at Petersburg Inman tells Veasey about? More details here.

Inman has vivid, and bad, memories of Fredericksburg. See how it all went down.

Want to read actual entries from letters like Inman's or diaries like Ada's? North Carolina Digital History is here to help!

For all sorts of Civil War knowledge, check out our learning guides.

This film stars Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and a host of other great actors, plus an awesome soundtrack featuring Alison Krauss and other amazing folk music. And the scenery is gorgeous.

Want to learn what Civil War soldiers on both sides ate? This page will tell you about it.

Frazier's almost as good at interviews as he is at novels. Read one here.

Why can't Ada and Ruby get coffee, except what Monroe left in the basement? It's Federal General Winfield Scott's fault. Sort of, anyway.

One of the most famous documentaries of our time, Ken Burns's The Civil War has clips like this one available on YouTube.

This is the song Sara sings the second night Inman stays in her cabin, recorded by a dude who collected folk music. Pretty awesome!

Sounds yucky. But "goober peas" is just another name for peanuts. This funny song was popular with Confederate soldiers. If Inman weren't so sad at the beginning of the book, he'd sing it while eating his peanuts.

Here's some fiddle music like the type Stobrod might be playing. It may start mellow, but Mark O'Connor's fiddle is on fire by the end.

Nobody seems to be sure whether this is Fredericksburg or Petersburg, but either way it gives an idea what Inman's opponents might have been doing before the battle.

Check out this cool illustration from way back when. This is after Inman leaves, but you get the idea.

Here's the crater at Petersburg made by the Union forces. Inman talks about the event in exile and brute wandering.