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Kirby Smith's Confederacy

By: University of Alabama Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (University of Alabama Press)


Product Info

Title
Kirby Smith's Confederacy
Category
Publish Year
1991
Dimensions
6x9x1.5"
NKG Part #
2148087627
Type
Softcover

Description

Offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything in pursuit of unattainable military victory

With the surrender of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Confederacy’s TransMississippi Department, which included Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, western Louisiana, and Indian Territory, was cut off from the remainder of the South. Robert Kerby’s insightful volume, originally published in 1972, “has gone far toward filling one of the most conspicuous gaps in the literature on the Confederacy,” according to The Journal of Southern History.

Kerby investigates the many factors that led to the Department’s disintegrating and offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything, including its principles and ideals, in pursuit of an unattainable military victory.