Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War

Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War

by David J. Eicher
Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War

Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War

by David J. Eicher

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Overview

David Eicher reveals the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. He shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governers but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316739054
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 03/22/2006
Edition description: 1ST
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author


David J. Eicher is the author of numerous books about the Civil War, including The Longest Night.

Table of Contents


Prologue     7
Birth of a Nation     17
Portrait of a President     37
The War Department     49
A Curious Cabinet     63
The Military High Command     77
State Rightisms     91
Richmond, the Capital     108
The Rise of Lee and Bragg     123
An Uneasy Brotherhood     134
Jockeying for Position     153
Politics Spinning Out of Control     166
Can't We All Get Along?     180
Soiled Reputations     194
The President versus the Congress     206
Military Highs and Lows     224
Slaves as Soldiers?     244
Peace Proposals     256
Epilogue: Despair     276
Postlude     286
Executive Officers of the Confederate States, 1861-1865     293
Congresses of the Confederate States, 1861-1865     294
Acknowledgments     300
Notes     303
Bibliography     316
Index     325
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