The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) prisons the excerpts provide glimpses of

the excerpts provide glimpses of personal encounters with the natural world during the war

Communications were problematic

He investigates claims that have found a foothold in mainstream lore

Civil War scholarship integrates those women who defied gender conventions to assume men’s roles—including those few who gained notoriety as spies

The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) prisons the excerpts provide glimpses ofby 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