Authors:Hubbard T. Minor, R. Thomas Campbell,
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: confederate, naval, minor, academy, hubbard, history, letters, cadet, diary, midshipman
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-01-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786426454
ISBN-13: 9780786426454

When the Civil War began, the southerners found themselves ill-prepared for the realities of waging war, especially on the naval front. Not only did the Confederates lack any semblance of a navy, they had few raw materials with which to construct one. The daunting task of building a navy fell on the shoulders of Stephen Mallory, newly appointed secretary of the navy. A former United States senator from Florida, Mallory had resigned from office when his home state seceded from the Union and he pledged himself to the service of the Confederacy. His intelligence and resourcefulness accomplished w

Author: Jefferson Davi
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: government, confederate, rise, volume
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1990-08-22
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0306804182
ISBN-13: 9780306804182

A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis—ex-president of the Confederacy, the ”Southern Lincoln,” popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause—began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the “cause,” and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he

Author: Judith Lee Hallock
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: defeat, braxton, confederate, bragg, amp, volume
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1991-11-30
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0817305432
ISBN-13: 9780817305437

Author: Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: war, confederate
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-03-15
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0674160568
ISBN-13: 9780674160569

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.

Author: Gamaliel Bradford
Publisher: Bradford Press
Keywords: portraits, confederate
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1406759996
ISBN-13: 9781406759990

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY # i& e pre$ Cambridge MDGCCCXIV JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON COPYRIGHT, 1912, AND 1913, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE NBALE PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published April 1( 314. TO MARVIN SPRAGUE Est aliquid sacri in antlquis necessitudinibus La critique pour moi, c’est le plaisir de connaitre les esprits, non de les regenter. Sainte-Beuve. PREFACE WHAT

Author: Paul Varnes
Publisher: Pineapple Press
Keywords: money, confederate
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1561642711
ISBN-13: 9781561642717

In 1861, as this story opens with the Yankee raid on the salt works at Cedar Key, Florida, a Confederate dollar is worth 90 cents in gold or silver. The Yankee soldiers, in their zeal to destroy the important Confederate salt works, kill young Henry Fern’s step-pa, who has brought Henry to the Gulf Coast town on his first train ride. From that moment on, Henry’s mind is locked on revenge. His goal to find the Yankee killers leads him throughout the South and much of the North as the war spreads. He studies medicine and offers aid to whichever side he needs to move through at the time. Thro

Author: Thomas Conn Brya
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: georgia, confederate
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820334995
ISBN-13: 9780820334998

Published in 1953, Confederate Georgia describes life in Georgia during the Civil War. T. Conn Bryan presents the political, military, economic, and social aspects of life, including secession, preparations for war, industry and transportation, wartime finance, desertion and disloyalty, women in the conflict, social life and diversions, the press and literary pursuits, education, and religion. Although Georgia’s relations with the Confederate government are fully treated, the main emphasis is on activities within the state. Numerous quotations from letters, diaries, and other source mate