num_pages: 1
description: This exciting and groundbreaking collection of essays looks at the lives and command decisions of eight Confederates who held the rank of full general and at the impact they had on the conduct, and ultimate outcome, of the Civil War. Old myths and familiar assumptions are cast aside as a group of leading Civil War historians offers new insight into the men of the South, on whose shoulders the weight of prosecuting the war would wall.
language: English
title: Leaders of the Lost Cause: New Perspectives on the Confederate High Command
titlecomplete: Leaders of the Lost Cause: New Perspectives on the Confederate High Command
genres: Biography, Civil War, Military History, American Civil War, History
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Stackpole Books