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Dixie betrayed
how the South really lost the Civil War
By Eicher, David J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-31673-905-4
- Publisher
- New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2006
Eicher (The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War ) turns to the personalities and politics of the Confederate government to explore and explain the South�s failure to win its independence. He follows a long trail of historians who argue that Dixie died from states� rights. Because the Confederacy lacked a strong central government, owing to politicians who placed states� rights above all else, and was not overseen by ef...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
