Ebook: How the South could have won the Civil War: the fatal errors that led to Confederate defeat
- Tags: Generals--Confederate States of America--History, HISTORY--United States--State & Local--General, Military art and science--Confederate States of America--History, Command of troops--History--19th century, Strategy--History--19th century, Military art and science, Strategy, Armed Forces--Drill and tactics, Military campaigns, Command of troops, Generals, History, Biography, United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Campaigns, Generals -- Confederate States of America -- History, Confederate States o
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
- City: New York;United States;Confederate States of America
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
No victory is inevitable -- "There stands Jackson like a stone wall" -- A new kind of war -- The Shenandoah Valley campaign -- The Seven Days -- The sweep behind Pope -- Second Manassas -- The lost order -- Antietam -- Fredericksburg -- Chancellorsville -- Gettysburg -- Appomattox.;Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why there is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for a state with overwhelming strength, and 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.--From publisher description.
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