The Civil War : the South / Thomas Streissguth, book editor.
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TextSeries: History firsthandPublication details: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, ©2001Description: 254 pages : illustrations, map, plan ; 23 cmISBN: 073770408X; 9780737704082; 0737704098; 9780737704099Subject(s): Confederate States of America -- History | Confederate States of America -- Social conditions | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, ConfederateGenre/Form: History. | Personal narratives -- Confederate. DDC classification: 973.7/13
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Summary: A collection of essays describing the Civil War from a Confederate viewpoint.
Introduction -- SECESSION AND FIRST FIGHTS: Imbecility, buffoonery, and vulgar malignity / John M. Daniel -- Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress / Jefferson Davis -- Why did that Green Goose Anderson go into Fort Sumter? / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Losing an opportunity at Bull Run / Edward Porter Alexander -- EARLY VICTORIES: A month with "The Rebels" / Anonymous -- The ride around McClellan / John Esten Cooke -- Victory at Fredericksburg / Robert Stiles -- SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY: Cavalry service / William G. Stevenson -- Camping with the Ninth Louisiana / Reuben Allen Pierson -- Swindling and soldering / Robert C. Carden -- THE WAR FROM HOME: Coward, helpless woman that I am? / Sarah Morgan -- The battle raged all day / Cornelia Peake McDonald -- We, too, loved the Union / Parthenia Antoinette Hague -- Wartime slavery in Missouri / Henry Clay Bruce -- TURNING POINTS: Poor dear dying brother! / Frank Perry -- The death of Stonewall Jackson / Henry Kyd Douglas -- Pickett's charge at Gettysburg / William C. Oates -- Capture in the Wilderness / Henry E. Handerson -- THE DEATH OF THE CONFEDERACY: On the picket line at Chattanooga / Joseph Polley -- Bread riots and kindred amenities / John B. Jones -- The siege of Petersburg / Charles Blackford -- The last days of the Confederate cause / Edward Porter Alexander.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-248) and index.
Introduction -- SECESSION AND FIRST FIGHTS: Imbecility, buffoonery, and vulgar malignity / John M. Daniel -- Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress / Jefferson Davis -- Why did that Green Goose Anderson go into Fort Sumter? / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Losing an opportunity at Bull Run / Edward Porter Alexander -- EARLY VICTORIES: A month with "The Rebels" / Anonymous -- The ride around McClellan / John Esten Cooke -- Victory at Fredericksburg / Robert Stiles -- SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY: Cavalry service / William G. Stevenson -- Camping with the Ninth Louisiana / Reuben Allen Pierson -- Swindling and soldering / Robert C. Carden -- THE WAR FROM HOME: Coward, helpless woman that I am? / Sarah Morgan -- The battle raged all day / Cornelia Peake McDonald -- We, too, loved the Union / Parthenia Antoinette Hague -- Wartime slavery in Missouri / Henry Clay Bruce -- TURNING POINTS: Poor dear dying brother! / Frank Perry -- The death of Stonewall Jackson / Henry Kyd Douglas -- Pickett's charge at Gettysburg / William C. Oates -- Capture in the Wilderness / Henry E. Handerson -- THE DEATH OF THE CONFEDERACY: On the picket line at Chattanooga / Joseph Polley -- Bread riots and kindred amenities / John B. Jones -- The siege of Petersburg / Charles Blackford -- The last days of the Confederate cause / Edward Porter Alexander.
A collection of essays describing the Civil War from a Confederate viewpoint.
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