Publication

1997 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

54,500 words, Guess

Page Count

218 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing448566
  • Goodreads981181

Classifications

  • DDC973.7/13
  • LCCE487 .G26 1997

Description

If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In The Confederate War he reexamines the Confederate experience through the actions and words of the people who lived it to show how the military and the home front responded to the war, endured great hardships, and assembled armies that fought with tremendous spirit and determination.

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