Title: How to lose the Civil War
Description: Essays outline the errors in judgment, bad decisions, and other mistakes on both sides in the Civil War, including Lincoln's long search for an able commander and his disastrous draft policy and the many Confederate lapses at Gettysburg.
Subjects: Campaigns, History, Errors, Anecdotes, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, campaigns
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, 1861-1865, Civil War, 19th century