How the South could have won the Civil War : the fatal errors that led to Confederate defeat
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... Full description
- 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.