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Title: The Confederate War by Gary W. Gallagher ISBN: 0-674-16056-8 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Confederate War
Comment: One thing I enjoy about Gallagher - His volumes are an easy, yet fact-filled and stimulating read - This book is no exception. Where others have placed the demise of the Conferacy on a multitude of issues, Gallagher's basic premise is that the South lost the war due to it's armies failures to provide enough victories. He also provides powerful evidence that contrary to modern thinking, the Confederate populace did indeed have the morale and stamina to prosecute the war. Only with the defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia did the population "give up the ghost."
The most interesting issue presented in this volume is the perspective that historians should, instead of concentrating on why the South lost, look at why and how did the South last so long and fight so hard.
Overall a thought provoking book and a must for the Civil War affecianado.
Rating: 4
Summary: Gallagher's views on the Confederate War experience
Comment: If there is one thing I like about Gary Gallagher it is that he is determined to try and get things right when he discusses the Civil War. Unlike some other historians, he is not afraid to use a blend of perspectives (battlefield, cultural, political, etc.) when trying to explain or discover what happened, or more importantly, why things turned out a certain way in the Civil War. This book represents his attempt to discuss the Confederate war experience as it unfolded.
This book is classic Gallagher in that he uses a series of essays to really dig deep into many Confederate issues like: Why did the Confederates lose the war? How did they make it last so long? Was the Confederacy doomed from the start? Did most Southerners support the War, and/or believe in the cause? He augments his arguments with statistical analysis, passages from letters, and other supporting documents. Overall, he does a solid job of supporting his theory that historians should focus more energy into the question of How did the South make the war last so long instead of why did the South lose the war.
Some may find this book a bit dry since Gallagher spends many pages discussing other historians works. But, if you are interested in trying to see the war from the Southern perspective, then you will most likely enjoy this book. It is an interesting array of material from one of today's best Civil War scholars.
Rating: 4
Summary: Vital for a Civil War Collection
Comment: In this short but very important work, Gallagher challenges the notion that the Confederacy did not develop a sense of nationalism and also many of the notions of the "lost cause" theory as well as a notion that the Confederacy was "stabbed in the back" by extensive internal tension among the populace as well as desertions. Gallagher uses many diaries and letters to bring home his points that the citizens of the CSA did in fact develop an extensive sense of nationalism and supported their cause right up until the end at Appomattox and even beyond. Gallagher also proves that while there were extensive disertions among some troops during many points in the war, many of those same troops rejoined their units after taking care of affairs at home. He also shows that rather than encouraging disertion because of problems at home, many Confederate women encouraged their men to stay with the army and not shirk their responsibilities to the CSA. Many historians also have recently concluded the CSA would have been better served to adopt a strategy of guerilla warfare against Union troops, Gallagher shows why this strategy would have been detrimental to southern society and the slave holding republic it wished to establish and therefore many recent historians miss the mark in asserting this strategy would have been proper and acceptable to the southern populace which wanted victories over Union forces.
My only gripe with this book is that it is really a compliation of several lectures by Dr. Gallagher that have been footnoted and extended. Therefore they really don't form an interconnected narrative and read like seperate small books. Had Dr. Gallagher attempted to form a more complete narrative with each of his sections of the book it would have been much better. However this is still an outstanding book and necessary for any serious student of the Civil War.
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Title: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0195124995 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The South Vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling ISBN: 0195156293 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Lee and His Generals in War and Memory by Gary W. Gallagher ISBN: 0807122866 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan ISBN: 0253338220 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner ISBN: 0060964316 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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