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Author | : Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Woodworth shows how the lack of a unified purpose and strategy in the East sealed the Confederacy's fate.
Author | : Burke Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Download Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on eyewitness accounts, Lee's letters, and his recorded conversations.
Author | : Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Jefferson Davis and His Generals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0306822466 |
Download Crucible of Command Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leaders—how they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nation
Author | : Devra Davis |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2009-02-24 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0465015689 |
Download The Secret History of the War on Cancer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the National Book Award finalist and author of "When Smoke Ran Like Water" comes this searing, haunting, and deeply personal account of how a major public health effort was diverted and distorted for private gain.
Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2012-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813140358 |
Download Virginia at War, 1865 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The final volume in this comprehensive history of Confederate Virginia examines the end of the Civil War in the Old Dominion. By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate soldiers began to desert at higher rates than at any other time in the war, returning home to provide their families with whatever assistance they could muster. It was a dark year for Virginia. Virginia at War, 1865 presents a striking depiction of a state ravaged by violence and destruction. In the final volume of the Virginia at War series, editors William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. have once again assembled an impressive collection of essays covering topics that include land operations, women and families, wartime economy, music and entertainment, the demobilization of Lee's army, and the war's aftermath. The volume ends with the final installment of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire's popular and important Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War.
Author | : James M. McPherson |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143127756 |
Download Embattled Rebel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many Americans in Davis's own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, if not a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause's failure. In order to understand the Civil War and its outcome, it is essential to give Davis his due as a military leader and as the president of an aspiring Confederate nation. Davis did not make it easy on himself. His subordinates and enemies alike considered him difficult, egotistical, and cold. He was gravely ill throughout much of the war, often working from home and even from his sickbed. Nonetheless, McPherson argues, Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force: the quest for independent nationhood. Although he had not been a fire-breathing secessionist, once he committed himself to a Confederate nation he never deviated from this goal. In a sense, Davis was the last Confederate left standing in 1865. As president of the Confederacy, Davis devoted most of his waking hours to military strategy and operations, along with Commander Robert E. Lee, and delegated the economic and diplomatic functions of strategy to his subordinates. Davis was present on several battlefields with Lee and even took part in some tactical planning; indeed, their close relationship stands as one of the great military-civilian partnerships in history. Most critical appraisals of Davis emphasize his choices in and management of generals rather than his strategies, but no other chief executive in American history exercised such tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy. And while he was imprisoned for two years after the Confederacy's surrender awaiting a trial for treason that never came, and lived for another twenty-four years, he never once recanted the cause for which he had fought and lost.--Publisher.
Author | : Joseph L. Harsh |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : 9780873385800 |
Download Confederate Tide Rising Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This analysis of the military policy and strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War, argues that their policies allowed the Confederacy to survive longer than it otherwise could have and were the policies best designed to win Southern independence.
Author | : Robert Edward Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : |
Download Lee's Dispatches Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439105855 |
Download Government of Our Own Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another example of Davis's fine storytelling skill and an indispensable guide to understanding the formation of the Confederate government. Among the issues Davis examines are revising the Constitution to meet Southern needs, banning the importation of slaves, and determining whether the convention could be considered a congress. Also revealed are the many participating personalities, their ambitions and egos, politicking and lobbying for the presidency of the new nation, and the nature of the city of Montgomery itself.