The essays in The Battlefield and Beyond consider the fundamental issue of the Confederacy's failure and military defeat but also expose our nation's continuing struggles with race, individual rights, terrorism, and the economy.
into the Union lines, and to hide them from Confederate authorities (Cimprich 1985, 29; Rawick 1972, 16:9). In the beginning stages of war, however, the Union did not officially attempt to disrupt the peculiar institution.
Essays on the American Civil War Clayton E. Jewett ... Joseph Goldberger and George A. Wheeler, “The Experimental Production of Pellagra in Human Subjects By Means of Diet,” Hygienic ... See also, Kraut, Goldberger's War, 152–71. 27.
For interpretations on the demise of a Southern nation and Confederate defeat, see Gabor S. Boritt, ed., Why the Confederacy Lost; Richard Beringer, The Elements of Confederate Defeat: Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion; Thomas, ...
The subject is clearly not exhausted, and a state-by-state approach fills a critical reference niche. This book is the first comparative summary of the southern slave states from Colonial times to Reconstruction.