Debating the Civil War
By: edited by John Y. Simon ; with a foreword by Keith Poulter
Series: The North & South series
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780809328390
Other titles: North and South (Tollhouse, Calif.)
Notes: Articles originally published in North & South : the magazine of Civil War conflict.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Who were the top ten generals of the Civil War? / Reid Mitchell, Steven H. Newton, Keith Poulter, Gordon C. Rhea, John Y. Simon, and Steven E. Woodworth; title: Who were the worst ten generals of the Civil War? / Steven H. Newton, Keith Poulter, Stephen W. Sears, John Y. Simon, Craig L. Symonds, and Steven E. Woodworth; title: Could the Confederacy have won the Civil War? / William W. Freehling, Allen C. Guelzo, Bruce Levine, Richard M. McMurry, James M. McPherson, and Stephen W. Sears; title: Was there a coherent Confederate strategy? / Keith Poulter, David Eicher, Joe Harsh, Richard McMurry, Robert Tanner, Russell Weigley, and Steven E. Woodworth; title: What was wrong with the Army of the Potomac? / Keith Poulter, Gordon Rhea, Richard Rollins, Stephen W. Sears, and John Y. Simon; title: What was the quality of generalship at Gettysburg? / Peter S. Carmichael, D. Scott Hartwig, Jeffrey C. Hall, Stephen W. Sears and Craig L. Symonds; title: What were the ten greatest successes of the Civil War? / Steven H. Newton, Keith Poulter, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, John Y. Simon, Craig L. Symonds, and Steven E. Woodworth; title: What were the ten greatest blunders of the Civil War? / Steven H. Newton, Keith Poulter, John Y. Simon, Craig L. Symonds, and Steven E. Woodworth; title: How good a general was Sherman? / Albert Castel, Keith Poulter, and Steven E. Woodworth; title: Did Judah P. Benjamin order the Lincoln assassination? / William B. Feis, James O. Hall and William Tidwell, James E. T. Lange and Katherine DeWitt, Jr., Keith Poulter, Edward Steers, Jr., and John Y. Simon.