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Author Alexander, Bevin.

Title How the South could have won the Civil War : the fatal errors that led to Confederate defeat / Bevin Alexander.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2007]
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 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Adult Department  973.7 ALE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973.713 ALE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.713 ALEXANDER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  973.713 ALEXANDER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  973.713 ALEXANDER    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description 337 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-319) and index.
Contents Introduction : 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.
Summary 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.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Generals -- Confederate States of America -- History.
Confederate States of America. Army -- Drill and tactics -- History.
Strategy -- History -- 19th century.
Command of troops -- History -- 19th century.
Military art and science -- Confederate States of America -- History.
ISBN 9780307345998
0307345998
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