Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0316739057
- ISBN-13
- 9780316739054
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-03-22
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Author
- David J. Eicher
Description
David Eicher reveals the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. He shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governers but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state.
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- 2007-10-01
- 338 pages
- Paperback
- U of Nebraska Press
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