num_pages: 400
description: We 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.
language: English
title: The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865
titlecomplete: The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865
characters: Jefferson Davis
genres: 19th Century, History, Politics, American History, Historical, War, American, American Civil War, Nonfiction, Civil War
ratings_count: 200
series: The New American Nation Series
publisher: HarperCollins