How The South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

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How the South Could Have Won shows why there is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for a state with overwhelming strength. Alexander provides a startling account of how a relatively small number of tactical and strategic mistakes cost the South the war—and changed the course of history. Debunking some of the most common assumptions about this great conflict, How the South Could Have Won will transform the way you see the war. Alexander documents exactly how a Confederate victory could have come about—and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond fanciful theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war’s key battle, the book offers surprising analyses on topics such as

Introduction: No Victory Is Inevitable

Chapter 1: “There Stands Jackson Like a Stone Wall”

Chapter 2: A New Kind of War

Chapter 3: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Chapter 4: The Seven Days

Chapter 5: The Sweep Behind Pope

Chapter 6: Second Manassas

Chapter 7: The Lost Order

Chapter 8: Antietam

Chapter 9: Fredericksburg

Chapter 10: Chancellorsville

Chapter 11: Gettysburg

Chapter 12: Appomattox

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