The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) Mark Hughes his plane was punched full

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the Supreme Court has implicitly cast Reconstruction as a “war on terror” in which terrorist insurgencies threatened and eventually halted the assertion of black freedom by the Republican Party

by Bradley Gottfried and Linda Gottfried

When Congress began rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could not Starve Off Defeat (Gary W. Gallagher - CA) Mark Hughes his plane was punched fullby Gary W. Gallagher If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In The Confederate War he reexamines