Dixie Betrayed How the South Really Lost the Civil War

by Eicher, David J.

• ISBN13: 9780316739054
• ISBN10: 0316739057
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-22
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

"For more than a century, since the end of the Civil War, the conventional wisdom has been that the South lost because of overwhelming Union strength and bad luck. The politicians and generals on the Confederate side have been lionzed as noble warriors who bravely fought for an honorable cause that had little chance of succeeding. But in Dixie Betrayed, historian David J. Eicher reveals for the first time the real story, a calamity of political conspiracy, discord, and dysfunction that cost the South the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

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