Davis and Lee at War
Author: Steven E. Woodworth
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Woodworth shows how the lack of a unified purpose and strategy in the East sealed the Confederacy's fate.
Author: Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Woodworth shows how the lack of a unified purpose and strategy in the East sealed the Confederacy's fate.
Author: Burke Davis
Publisher:
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 510
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on eyewitness accounts, Lee's letters, and his recorded conversations.
Author: Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 0306822466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2009-02-24
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0465015689
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Joseph L. Harsh
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780873385800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: James M. McPherson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0143127756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Donald E. Collins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780742543041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Civil War ended, Jefferson Davis had fallen from the heights of popularity to the depths of despair. In this fascinating new book, Donald E. Collins explores the resurrection of Davis to heroic status in the hearts of white Southerners culminating in one of the grandest funeral processions the nation had ever seen. As schools closed and bells tolled along the thousand mile route, Southerners appeared en masse to bid a final farewell to the man who championed Southern secession and ardently defended the Confederacy.
Author: William C. Davis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012-01-06
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0813140358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.