Richmond Views the West: Politics and Perceptions in the Confederate Capital

Winner: Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award

How did politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, and civilians in Richmond understand a war being fought a thousand miles away? Expert Civil War historian Larry Daniel shows for the first time how poor intelligence, fierce politics, and cultural prejudice affected Confederate strategy in the Western Theater.

In his novel approach to understanding the Western Theater of the U.S. Civil War, Larry J. Daniel brings new insight a...