The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture (Reflections on the Civil War Era)

A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort.

• Photographs, maps, and graphs enrich the text and illustrate changes in military strength, the importance of the Border South, and the loss of Confederate territory over time

• A bibliographical essay directs the reader to some of the most important and recent works in the vast historiography of the Civil War