The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865We have for years needed a serious, scholarly, readable work on the Confederate nation that rounds up modem scholarship and offers a fresh and detached view of the whole subject. This work fills that order admirably ... [Thomas] sensibly and deftly integrates the course of Southern military fortunes with the concerns that shaped them and were shaped by them. In doing so he also manages to convey a sense of how the war itself deteriorated from something spirited and gallant to something base and mean and modern on both sides. |
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Page 252
... Army of Tennessee was dispersed but intact in the rugged mountainous region of northwest Georgia . Rosecrans had maneuvered Bragg out of Tennessee at small cost to himself , but neither had the Confederates suffered significantly ...
... Army of Tennessee was dispersed but intact in the rugged mountainous region of northwest Georgia . Rosecrans had maneuvered Bragg out of Tennessee at small cost to himself , but neither had the Confederates suffered significantly ...
Page 281
... army aban- doned Savannah and headed north . Hardee and the War Office in Richmond hoped to concentrate as many Southern troops as possi- ble and make a ... Army of Tennessee offered little in the way of resistance DEATH OF THE NATION 281.
... army aban- doned Savannah and headed north . Hardee and the War Office in Richmond hoped to concentrate as many Southern troops as possi- ble and make a ... Army of Tennessee offered little in the way of resistance DEATH OF THE NATION 281.
Page 373
... army ( cont'd ) impressment of private property authorized , 196 vs. Union army , 155 see also Army of Northern Virginia ; Army of Tennessee Army of Northern Virginia , 254-255 , 256 in flight , 300 , 302 Lee takes over , 160 at Marye's ...
... army ( cont'd ) impressment of private property authorized , 196 vs. Union army , 155 see also Army of Northern Virginia ; Army of Tennessee Army of Northern Virginia , 254-255 , 256 in flight , 300 , 302 Lee takes over , 160 at Marye's ...
Contents
THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF THE OLD SOUTH | 1 |
CULTURAL NATIONALISM IN THE PRECONFED ERATE SOUTH | 17 |
FOUNDATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN NATION | 37 |
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