Seven myths of the Civil War / edited, with an introduction, by Wesley Moody.

Publication:

Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2017]

Series:

Myths of history.
Myths of history: a Hackett series

Format/Description:

Book
xxii, 178 pages ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

American Civil War (1861-1865)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography.
Confederate States of America -- Historiography.
Historiography
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America

Form/Genre:

History.

Contents:

Introduction: The continuing battles of the Civil War
Confederate states' rights: A contradiction in terms / Michael T. Bernath
Was Abraham Lincoln a racist?
African Americans in Confederate military service: Myth and reality
The myth of the "great" conventional battlefield war
Civil War prisons: the legacy of responsibility
The lost causers' favorite target: Grant the Butcher
Marching through Georgia: the myth of Sherman's total war
Epilogue: Notes from a southerner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Moody, Wesley, editor, author of introduction.

ISBN:

9781624666360
1624666361
9781624666377
162466637X

OCLC:

980302259

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