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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
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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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Abstract:
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.
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