The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) writing White tells the riveting story

White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith

In this stirring and powerfully illustrated story

Séance successes and violent failures

Then everything changed

For nearly a century his military and political career remained deeply misunderstood

The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) writing White tells the riveting storyby Gary W. Gallagher If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In The Confederate War he reexamines