Author : Robert L. Kerby
Release : 1991
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Kirby Smith's Confederacy by : Robert L. Kerby
Download or read book Kirby Smith's Confederacy written by Robert L. Kerby. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything in pursuit of unattainable military victory With the surrender of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Confederacy's TransMississippi Department, which included Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, western Louisiana, and Indian Territory, was cut off from the remainder of the South. Robert Kerby's insightful volume, originally published in 1972, "has gone far toward filling one of the most conspicuous gaps in the literature on the Confederacy," according to The Journal of Southern History. Kerby investigates the many factors that led to the Department's disintegrating and offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything, including its principles and ideals, in pursuit of an unattainable military victory.