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Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief
- Title
- Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief / James M. McPherson.
- Author
- McPherson, James M.
- Publication
- New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
- Subjects
- Presidents
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
- Military leadership
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 > Military leadership
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Political science
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography
- Biography
- United States > Confederate States of America
- Military campaigns
- History
- Confederate States of America > Politics and government
- Presidents > Confederate States of America > Biography
- 1861 - 1865
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- Color maps on lining pages.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index.
- Contents
- We must prepare for a long war -- Winter of discontent -- War so gigantic -- The clouds are dark over us -- We should take the initiative -- We must beat Sherman -- The last resort.
- Call Number
- IKP 14-8250
- ISBN
- 9781594204975 (hc)
- 1594204977 (hc)
- LCCN
- 2014005403
- OCLC
- 870248703
- Author
- McPherson, James M.
- Title
- Embattled rebel : Jefferson Davis as commander in chief / James M. McPherson.
- Publisher
- New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1861 - 1865
- Research Call Number
- IKP 14-8250