Davis And Lee At War
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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 | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0306822466 |
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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 | : Burke Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Based on eyewitness accounts, Lee's letters, and his recorded conversations.
Author | : Joseph L. Harsh |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : 9780873385800 |
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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 | : |
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Author | : William Davis |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813134684 |
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Kent Hollingsworth captures the flavor and atmosphere of the Sport of Kings in the dramatic account of the development of the Thoroughbred in Kentucky. Ranging from frontier days, when racing was conducted in open fields as horse-to-horse challenges between proud owners, to the present, when a potential Triple Crown champion may sell for millions of dollars, The Kentucky Thoroughbred considers ten outstanding stallions that dominated the shape of racing in their time as representing the many eras of Kentucky Thoroughbred breeding. No less colorful are his accounts of the owners, breeders, trainers, and jockeys associated with these Thoroughbreds, a group devoted to a sport filled with high adventure and great hazards. First published in 1976, this popular Kentucky classic has been expanded and brought up to date in this new edition.
Author | : Donald Stoker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2010-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199752567 |
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Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis identified their political goals and worked with their generals to craft the military means to achieve them--or how they often failed to do so. Stoker shows that Davis, despite a West Point education and experience as Secretary of War, ultimately failed as a strategist by losing control of the political side of the war. Lincoln, in contrast, evolved a clear strategic vision, but he failed for years to make his generals implement it. And while Robert E. Lee was unerring in his ability to determine the Union's strategic heart--its center of gravity--he proved mistaken in his assessment of how to destroy it. Historians have often argued that the North's advantages in population and industry ensured certain victory. In The Grand Design, Stoker reasserts the centrality of the overarching plan on each side, arguing convincingly that it was strategy that determined the result of America's great national conflict.
Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807120798 |
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A biography of Jefferson Davis: statesman, Mexican war hero, and President of the Confederate States of America.
Author | : William J. Cooper |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 2001-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0375725423 |
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From a distinguished historian of the American South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle. Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union—as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and senator, he considered himself a patriot. William J. Cooper shows us how Davis' initial reluctance turned into absolute commitment to the Confederacy. He provides a thorough account of Davis' life, both as the Confederate President and in the years before and after the war. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, Jefferson Davis, American is the definitive examination of one of the most enigmatic figures in our nation's history.
Author | : Bevin Alexander |
Publisher | : Forum Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307450104 |
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Could the South have won the Civil War? To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable? Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely could have won the war, and Alexander documents exactly how a Confederate victory could have come about—and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond fanciful theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war’s key battles, How the South Could Have Won the Civil War offers surprising analysis on topics such as: •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 Civil War’s decisive turning point came in a battle that the Rebel army never needed to fight •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 true vulnerability better than the Confederacy’s top leaders did •How it is a myth that the Union army’s accidental discovery of Lee’s order of battle doomed the South’s 1862 Maryland campaign •How the South failed to heed the important lessons of its 1863 victory at Chancellorsville How the South Could Have Won the Civil War shows why there is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for a state with overwhelming strength. Alexander 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.