Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862
- ISBN-10
- 0873385802
- ISBN-13
- 9780873385800
- Category
- Confederate States of America
- Pages
- 278
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Author
- Joseph L. Harsh
Description
This analysis of the military policy and strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War, argues that their policies allowed the Confederacy to survive longer than it otherwise could have and were the policies best designed to win Southern independence.
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