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How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
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Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)
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ISBN10: 0307346005
ISBN13: 9780307346001
Publisher: Forum Books
Published: Nov 25 2008
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780307346001
Publisher: Forum Books
Published: Nov 25 2008
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Destroying conventional historical wisdom, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals how the South most definitely could have defeated the North-and how close a Confederate victory came to happening. Alexander shows: -How the Confederacy had its greatest chance to win the war just three months into the fighting-but blew it
- How the Confederacy's three most important leaders- President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson- clashed over how to fight the war
- How the Confederate army devised-but never fully exploited-a way to negate the Union's huge advantages in manpower and weaponry
- How Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders understood the Union's vulnerability better than the Confederacy's leaders did How the South Could Have Won the Civil War provides a startling account of how a relatively small number of tactical and strategic mistakes cost the South the war and changed the course of history.
- How the Confederate army devised-but never fully exploited-a way to negate the Union's huge advantages in manpower and weaponry
- How Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders understood the Union's vulnerability better than the Confederacy's leaders did How the South Could Have Won the Civil War provides a startling account of how a relatively small number of tactical and strategic mistakes cost the South the war and changed the course of history.
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