The collapse of the Confederacy

Practically all Civil War historians agree that after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and Lincoln's triumphant reelection in November, the South had no remaining chance to make good its independence. Well aware that Appomattox and Durham Station were close at hand, historians have treated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Grimsley, Mark (-), Simpson, Brooks D.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2001.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Key issues of the Civil War era.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The last function of government : Confederate collapse and negotiated peace / Steven E. Woodworth
  • Learning to say "enough" : Southern generals and the final weeks of the Confederacy / Mark Grimsley
  • Facilitating defeat : the Union high command and the collapse of the Confederacy / Brooks D. Simpson
  • Jefferson Davis and the "guerilla option" : a reexamination / William B. Feis
  • Despair, hope, and delusion : the collapse of Confederate morale reexamined / George C. Rable
  • Did Confederate women lose the war? Deprivation, destruction, and despair on the home front / Jean V. Berlin.