The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) prisons and introduces the important friends

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He investigates claims that have found a foothold in mainstream lore

Civil War scholarship integrates those women who defied gender conventions to assume men’s roles—including those few who gained notoriety as spies

She argues that blacks interpreted the proclamation much more broadly than Lincoln intended it

The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) prisons and introduces the important friendsby Gary W. Gallagher If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In The Confederate War he reexamines