A Crisis in Confederate Command
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Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
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ISBN | : 9780807140673 |
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Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
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ISBN | : 9780807140673 |
Author | : Jeffery Scott Prushankin |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Generals |
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Author | : John Lewis Peyton |
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Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
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Author | : Steven E. Woodworth |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have place him at both ends of the spectrum: some have portrayed him as a hero, others have judged him incompetent.
Author | : Cecil William Battine |
Publisher | : London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Company |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Ethan Sepp Rafuse |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780742551251 |
In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend the Confederacy against a relentless and determined foe. This book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the Confederacy's prospects for victory.
Author | : Stephen Davis |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy's rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent's semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his predecessor Joe Johnston's chronic, characteristic strategy of gradual withdrawal had doomed the city to fall to William T. Sherman's Union troops. Joe Johnston lost Atlanta and John Bell Hood has gotten a bum rap, Stephen Davis argues in his new book, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. The fall of the city was inevitable because Johnston pursued a strategy that was typical of his career: he fell back. Again and again. To the point where he allowed Sherman's army to within five miles of the city. Against a weaker opponent, Johnston's strategy might have succeeded. But Sherman commanded superior numbers, and he was a bold, imaginative strategist who pressed the enemy daily and used his artillery to pound their lines. Against this combination, Johnston didn't have a chance. And by the time Hood took over the Confederate command, neither did he. Atlanta Will Fall provides a lively, fast-paced overview of the entire Atlanta campaign from Dalton to Jonesboro. Davis describes the battles and analyzes the strategies. He evaluates the three generals, examining their plans of action, their tactics, and their leadership ability. In doing so, he challenges the commonly held perceptions of the two Confederate leaders and provides a new perspective on one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War. An excellent supplemental text for courses on the Civil War and American nineteenth-century history, Atlanta Will Fall will engage students with its brisk, concise examination of the fight for Atlanta.
Author | : John Lewis Peyton |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : John Ashworth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2012-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107024080 |
Meticulously analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War and the causes of that conflict.
Author | : Gary W. Gallagher |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807174068 |
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it, investigating how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war. The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The array of topics Gallagher addresses is striking. He examines notable books and authors, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous and lesser known. He discusses historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities, challenging, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, Ulysses S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E. Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Gallagher interrogates recent scholarly trends on the evolving nature of Civil War studies, addressing crucial questions about chronology, history, memory, and the new revisionist literature. The format of this provocative and timely collection lends itself to sampling, and readers might start in any of the subject groupings and go where their interests take them.