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Confederate Tide Rising - Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy

By: Kent State University Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Kent State University Press)

Last Stocked on 12/18/2013

Product Info

Title
Confederate Tide Rising - Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy
Category
Author
Joseph Harsh
Publish Year
1998
Pages
278
Dimensions
6.5x9x1"
NKG Part #
2147354625
MFG. Part #
0-87338-580-2
Type
Hardcover

Description

In this reexamination of Confederate war aims, Joseph L. Harsh analyzes the military policy and grand strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War.

Recent critics of Lee have depicted him as a general of tactical brilliance, but one who lacked strategic vision. He has been accused of squandering meager military resources in vain pursuit of decisive victories during his first year in field command. Critics of Davis claim he went too far in adopting a “perimeter” policy which attempted to defend every square mile of Southern territory, scattering Confederate resources too thinly.

Harsh argues, to the contrary, that Davis and Lee's policies allowed the Confederacy to survive longer than it otherwise could have and were the policies best designed to win Southern independence.