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" The collapse of the Confederacy / "
edited by Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson.
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1040447
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b794817
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The collapse of the Confederacy /\ edited by Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson.
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, ©2001.
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Key issues of the Civil War era
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1 online resource (201 pages) :: maps.
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080320065X
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: 6610423997
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: 9780803200654
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: 9781280423994
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: 9786610423996
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0803221703
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9780803221703
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The last function of government : Confederate collapse and negotiated peace / Steven E. Woodworth -- Learning to say "enough" : Southern generals and the final weeks of the Confederacy / Mark Grimsley -- Facilitating defeat : the Union high command and the collapse of the Confederacy / Brooks D. Simpson -- Jefferson Davis and the "guerilla option" : a reexamination / William B. Feis -- Despair, hope, and delusion : the collapse of Confederate morale reexamined / George C. Rable -- Did Confederate women lose the war? Deprivation, destruction, and despair on the home front / Jean V. Berlin.
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Practically all Civil War historians agree that after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and Lincoln's triumphant reelection in November, the South had no remaining chance to make good its independence. Well aware that Appomattox and Durham Station were close at hand, historians have treated the war's final months in a fashion that smacks strongly of denouement: the great, tragic conflict rolls on to its now-certain end. Certain, that is, to us, but deeply uncertain to the millions of Northerners and Southerners who lived through the anxious days of early 1865. The final months of the Confederacy offer fascinating opportunities-as a case study in war termination, as a period that shaped the initial circumstances of Reconstruction, and as a lens through which to analyze Southern society at its most stressful moment. The Collapse of the Confederacy collects six essays that explore how popular expectations, national strategy, battlefield performance, and Confederate nationalism affected Confederate actions during the final months of the conflict.
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History Archaeology.
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HISTORY.
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Military campaigns.
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Politics and government.
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Regions Countries - Americas.
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Social aspects.
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Social conditions.
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United States - General.
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Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
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Confederate States of America, History.
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Confederate States of America, Politics and government.
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Confederate States of America, Social conditions.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Social aspects.
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United States, Confederate States of America.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.7/13
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E487.C67 2001eb
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15.85bcl
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Grimsley, Mark.
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Simpson, Brooks D.
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