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Dixie betrayed : how the South really lost the Civil War

Author: David J Eicher
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A study in how governments can self-destruct during wartime. For more than a century, the conventional wisdom has been that the South lost because of overwhelming Union strength and bad luck. The Confederates have been lionized as noble warriors who fought for an honorable cause with little chance of succeeding. But historian Eicher reveals a calamity of political conspiracy, discord, and dysfunction. Drawing on  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Nonfiction
History
Named Person: Jefferson Davis; Jefferson Davis; Jefferson Davis
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David J Eicher
ISBN: 0316739057 9780316739054
OCLC Number: 61651438
Description: x, 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents: Prologue --
Birth of a nation --
Portrait of a President --
The War Department --
A curious cabinet --
The military high command --
State rightisms --
Richmond, the capital --
The rise of Lee and Bragg --
An uneasy brotherhood --
Jockeying for position --
Politics spinning out of control --
Can't we all get along? --
Soiled reputations --
The President versus the Congress --
Military highs and lows --
Slaves as soldiers? --
Peace proposals --
Epilogue : Despair --
Appendix: Executive officers of the Confederate States, 1861-1865 ; Congresses of the Confederate States, 1861-1865.
Responsibility: David J. Eicher.
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America's most brilliant young Civil War historian offers a radical new way of understanding the South's defeat: that the Confederacy was defeated by self-inflicted wounds.  Read more...

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