Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil WarLittle, Brown, 30. mai 2009 - 384 sider David Eicher reveals the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. He shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governers but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state. |
Innhold
Portrait of a President | |
The War Department | |
A Curious Cabinet | |
The Military High Command | |
State Rightisms | |
Richmond the Capital | |
Cant We All Get Along? | |
Soiled Reputations | |
The President versus the Congress | |
Military Highs and Lows | |
Slaves as Soldiers? | |
Peace Proposals | |
Epilogue Despair | |
Postlude | |
The Rise of Lee and Bragg | |
An Uneasy Brotherhood | |
Jockeying for Position | |
Politics Spinning Out of Control | |
Executive Officers of the Confederate States 18611865 | |
Acknowledgments | |
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