Title:
Why the North won the Civil War / essays by Henry Steele Commager ... [et al.] ; edited by David Herbert Donald.
Author:
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.
Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2005.
Call Number:
E468 .W49 2005
Abstract:
"Six authoritative views on the economic, military, diplomatic, social, and political reasons behind the confederacy's defeat."
Edition:
Pbk. ed. / with a new foreword by the editor.
ISBN:
9780684825069
Physical Description:
127 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The defeat of the Confederacy : an overview / Henry Steele Commager -- God and the strongest battalions / Richard N. Current -- The military leadership of north and south / T. Harry Williams -- Northern diplomacy and European neutrality / Norman A. Graebner -- Died of democracy / David Herbert Donald -- Jefferson Davis and the political factors in Confederate defeat / David M. Potter.
