Why the Confederacy Lost
- ISBN-10
- 0195085493
- ISBN-13
- 9780195085495
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 209
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993-10-07
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Gabor S. Boritt
Description
Five major historians return to the battlefield to explain the South's defeat. Provocatively argued and engagingly written, this work rejects the notion that the Union victory was inevitable and shows the importance of the commanders, strategies, and victories at key moments.
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