Our masters the rebels
Subtitle: a speculation on Union military failure in the East, 1861-1865
By: Michael C. C. Adams.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780674646438
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: North and South : the antebellum debate over character; title: The plantation and the garrison : the idea of a martial South before the Civil War; title: Prelude : the secession crisis and Fort Sumter; title: The penalties of defeat : Northern reaction to the Battle of Bull Run; title: One man's role : McClellan : his military significance; title: Desperate measures : the politics of war in 1862; title: Fighting for defeat : Fredericksburg to Gettysburg; title: War in earnest : the North and the final campaigns; title: Losing the peace : the idea of a martial South revisited