Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War

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Little, Brown, May 30, 2009 - History - 384 pages
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.
 

Contents

Prologue
Birth of a Nation
Portrait of a President
The War Department
A Curious Cabinet
The Military High Command
State Rightisms
Richmond the Capital
Cant We All Get Along?
Soiled Reputations
The President versus the Congress
Military Highs and Lows
Slaves as Soldiers?
Peace Proposals
Epilogue Despair
Postlude

The Rise of Lee and Bragg
An Uneasy Brotherhood
Jockeying for Position
Politics Spinning Out of Control
Executive Officers of the Confederate States 18611865
Acknowledgments
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