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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Why the Confederacy lost. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)555358900 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
G S Boritt; James M McPherson; et al |
| ISBN: | 019507405X 9780195074055 0195085493 9780195085495 |
| OCLC Number: | 25026583 |
| Description: | xii, 209 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | American victory, American defeat / James M. McPherson -- Military means, political ends : strategy / Archer Jones -- "Upon their success hang momentous interests" : generals / Gary W. Gallagher -- The perseverance of the soldiers / Reid Mitchell -- Black glory : the African-American role in union victory / Joseph T. Glatthaar. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; essays by James M. McPherson ... [et al.]. |
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Abstract:
Five major historians return to the battlefield to explain the South's defeat. Provocatively argued and engagingly written, this work rejects the notion that the Union victory was inevitable and shows the importance of the commanders, strategies, and victories at key moments.
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