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"The Confederacy was never single-minded. From the fateful year of 1861 until Appomattox, the South was a complex of heroism and cowardice, grief and frivolity, nationalism and state rights. But at the same time the Southern nation underwent a complete career from birth through maturity to death. In The Confederacy Charles P. Roland is faithful to both the larger career and the internal complexity. Paying careful attention to President Davis' struggle against dividing forces within, the show more author skillfully narrates the attempt of the Confederacy to wage total war against superior forces. All the poignant events and conditions are here: the formation of the government, the upper South's final commitment to the cause, the doomed attempts to combat the Northern blockade at home and Northern diplomacy overseas, an agrarian economy's heroic defiance of an industrial enemy, the desperate measures by which the Davis government tried to sustain the Confederacy, and, at last, the dissolution and flight of the administration in 1865. With accuracy, sensitivity, and balance, Mr. Roland develops the epic themes of his story against a background of vivid historical detail and re-creates the Confederacy with a tragic splendor--that prime quality of its surviving image among Southerners."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Dr. Charles P. Roland is emeritus professor of history at the University of Kentucky and has enjoyed a long, distinguished career as an educator and historian, including service as the visiting professor of military history at both the United States Army War College and the United States Military Academy. His biography, Albert Sidney Johnston: show more Soldier of Three Republics, is the definitive study of that controversial Confederate general. Among his other Civil War works are The Confederacy and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Dr. Roland lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife, Allie Lee. show less
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- 973.713 — History & geography History of North America United States Civil War Era (1857-1865) James Buchanan (1857-1861) Secession of southern states
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- E487 .R7 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 The Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate States of America
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