Winning and Losing in the Civil War: Essays and StoriesUniv of South Carolina Press, 1996 - 204 páginas Winning and Losing in the Civil War collects fifteen of the most influential short writings by accomplished Civil War historian Albert Castel, each presented with his trademark wit, style, and analytical precision. The author expounds on some of the most provocative, arresting issues surrounding the war, including the dispute over inevitability of Northern victory and the question of Lee's greatness on and off the battlefield. Castel contemplates presidents and mules, generals and guerrillas, lovers and haters, facts and opinions, actualities and probabilities. In addition, he uses the volume as a forum for reflecting on his role as historian, identifying the primary problem facing present-day practitioners of Civil War historiography, and illumining what remains to be accomplished in this heavily tilled but ever-popular field of scholarly inquiry. |
Contenido
The Probable versus the Inevitable | 1 |
Setting the Record Straight | 33 |
Order No 11 and the Civil War on the Border | 51 |
Thomas L Connelly versus | 63 |
History | 79 |
Shermans Memoirs as a Source | 89 |
How the Civil War Was Fought | 117 |
A Case Study in Partisan | 133 |
The Mule Goes to War | 145 |
Of Women and | 153 |
Dixie | 165 |
Letters from a Civil War Soldiers Wife | 176 |
The Strange and Hitherto Untold Story of | 184 |
Civil War History and the Quest for Originality | 199 |
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Winning and Losing in the Civil War: Essays and Stories Albert Castel Sin vista previa disponible - 2011 |
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