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Category: Why South lost Civil War - Confederacy Myths --- See latest Civil War news here
It was not Union Army that beat the Confederacy - 164,000 died of disease
It was not Lincoln's Union Army that dealt the Confederacy its biggest blow. Only 94,000 Southerners died in battle, 164,000 died of disease. Much was due to a declining supply of medicine - because of the blockade. When enemy camps were overrun, the medical stores were seized and resold at 50 times their value. General Lee called upon the secretary of war to put an end to the practice. In 1863 Surgeon Major Francis Perye Porcher wrote a manual on indigenous botanical substitutes: "Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economic and Agricultural." Some argue it helped Confederates to hold off the Union Army for 2 additional years.
by lvrj :: 2008-02-28 :: Why South lost Civil War - Confederacy Myths
We do know what kind of historian she is, and safe is not the word
18 years ago, at a conference at the University of California, Drew Gilpin Faust, respected professor of Southern history, caused an uproar that some of her peers still talk about. Among historians of the South and the Civil War, there is no larger question than why the Confederacy lost its bid for independence. Explanations range from battlefield tactics to the North's industrial superiority. In San Diego that day she offered her explanation that managed to rub everyone the wrong way. The South lost, she argued, because of the part played by rich white women, the very figures that had been held up as Dixie's staunchest supporters.
by boston :: 2007-06-11 :: Why South lost Civil War - Confederacy Myths
Confederate Civil War defeat blamed on self-interest
In 1862 two congressmen of the Confederate blocked a bill that would have connected two railroads critical to Confederacy armies, because they thought that Virginia should have the power to decide what to do. That is just one of many revealing vignettes contained in Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War. Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens spent much of the war sick in his bed, conspiring against Jefferson Davis. The book, with its behind-the-scenes look at the infighting that took place in the Confederate war machine, reveals how amazing it was that the rebellion managed to survive four years.
by dispatch :: 2006-06-19 :: Confederate - Confederacy - American Civil War
Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War
David Eicher argues that many forces that defeated the Confederacy were internal. (Q) You call Jefferson Davis' meddling in the Confederate War Department "legendary." (A) Jefferson Davis was an expert. He had been secretary of war. He micromanaged everything. By contrast, Lincoln began with almost no war experience, having been a soldier in the Black Hawk War. He knew nothing about military tactics or strategy, but Lincoln learned. He maneuvered the right people into control with a different system that included such innovations as a War Board of hand-picked people he trusted. He went through generals in chief until he got to one he trusted, U.S. Grant.
by jsonline :: 2006-04-20 :: Confederate - Confederacy - American Civil War
The Cause Lost - Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
Davis brings into sharp focus the facts and fictions of the South's victories and defeats, its tenacious struggle to legitimize its cause and defeat an overpowering enemy, and its ultimate loss of will. He debunks legends and courage of the leadership and would-be founding fathers. Among the most misunderstood was Jefferson Davis. Often branded as incompetent, the Confederate president was simply a committed leader whose mistakes were magnified. He reveals why only Robert E. Lee succeeded in winning Davis' confidence through flattery and persuasion. He examines the myths of the nearly deified Stonewall Jackson and of John C. Breckinridge, the only effective Confederate secretary of war.
by kansaspress :: 2000-05-10 :: Confederate - Confederacy - American Civil War