How the South Could Have Won the Civil War
Subtitle: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
Publisher: Crown; Crown Publishers
Published: December 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780307345998
Subjects: History; History - Military / War; History: American; Speculative; United States - Civil War; History / United States / General; Military - Strategy; United States - General; 19th century; Command of troops; Confederate States of America; Generals; Strategy
Description: Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why there is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for a state with overwhelming strength, and provides a startling account of how a relatively small number of tactical and strategic mistakes cost the South the war--and changed the course of history.--From publisher description.