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Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief / James M. McPherson.
Van Pelt Library E467.1.D26 M26 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPherson, James M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Military leadership.
- Davis, Jefferson.
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
- Presidents.
- Command of troops.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- History.
- Confederate States of America--Politics and government.
- Confederate States of America.
- Presidents--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- Military campaigns.
- Political science.
- United States--Confederate States of America.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
- Contents:
- We must prepare for a long war
- Winter of discontent
- War so gigantic
- The clouds are dark over us
- We should take the initiative
- We must beat Sherman
- The last resort.
- Notes:
- Color maps on lining pages.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594204975
- 1594204977
- OCLC:
- 870248703
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