Bevin Alexander
Could the South have won the Civil War?,To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasnâ€™t the Southâ€™s defeat inevitable?,Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely could have won the war, and Alexander documents exactly how a Confederate victory could have come aboutâ€”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 warâ€™s key battles, ,How the South Could Have Won the Civil War, offers surprising analysis on topics such as:,â€¢How the Confederacy had its greatest chance to win the war just three months into the fightingâ€”but blew it,â€¢How the Confederacyâ€™s three most important leadersâ€”President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas â€œStonewallâ€ Jacksonâ€”clashed over how to fight the war,â€¢How the Civil Warâ€™s decisive turning point came in a battle that the Rebel army never needed to fight ,â€¢How the Confederate army devisedâ€”but never fully exploitedâ€”a way to negate the Unionâ€™s huge advantages in manpower and weaponry,â€¢How Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders understood the Unionâ€™s true vulnerability better than the Confederacyâ€™s top leaders did,â€¢How it is a myth that the Union armyâ€™s accidental discovery of Leeâ€™s order of battle doomed the Southâ€™s 1862 Maryland campaign,â€¢How the South failed to heed the important lessons of its 1863 victory at Chancellorsville ,How the South Could Have Won the Civil War, 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 warâ€”and changed the course of history.
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How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: the Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat