Embattled Rebel
Subtitle: Jefferson Davis as commander in chief
Publisher: Penguin Press; The Penguin Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781594204975
Description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: We must prepare for a long war; title: Winter of discontent; title: War so gigantic; title: The clouds are dark over us; title: We should take the initiative; title: We must beat Sherman; title: The last resort; title: Coda