Lost For The Cause The Confederate Army In 1865

by Newton, Steven H.

• ISBN13: 9781882810499
• ISBN10: 188281049X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-22
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

A meticulously documented challenge to previous views about the extent and effectiveness of Confederate manpower in the last year of the Civil War.

Author Biography

Steven H. Newton is Professor of History at Delaware State University. His previous books on World War II include Kursk: The German View and Retreat from Leningrad.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	i
Orders of Battle, Author's Note	v
Missing! One Confederate Army	1	(14)
Men, Horses, and Guns: Estimating Confederate Strength	15	(16)
Rebuilding the Army After a Year of Disasters	31	(36)
Virginia: The Attrition Myth	67	(22)
Casualties, Attrition, and Morale in Georgia	89	(42)
The ``Other'' Confederate Army	131	(16)
Toward a Reinterpretation of Confederate Defeat	147	(18)
Part II: Orders of Battle
The Army of Northern Virginia	165	(24)
Department of Western Virginia	189	(6)
Department of East Tennessee	195	(6)
Department of Richmond	201	(8)
Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia	209	(18)
Department of South Carolina, Georgia, ad Florida	227	(24)
Army of Tennessee	251	(28)
Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana	279	(28)
The Trans-Mississippi Department	307	(32)
Bibliography	339	(10)
Unit Index	349	(9)
Name Index	358