The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
by Crocker, H. W., IIIFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-09-30
Publisher(s): Regnery Pub
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Summary
"The politically correct history that dominates our schools and universities insists that Jefferson Davis was another Hitler, Robert E. Lee was the equivalent of Rommel, and the Confederate States of America was our own little version of the Third Reich - a blot on American history. But reality, as always, was different: the Old South, as H. W. Crocker III explains in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, had immense charm, grace, and merit - and a very strong Constitutional case. This book is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today's Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War - and shows why, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, "America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
H. W. Crocker III is the bestselling author of the prize-winning comic novel The Old Limey and several nonfiction histories, including Don't Tread on Me, Robert E. Lee on Leadership, Triumph, The Yanks Are Coming, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire. His journalism has appeared in National Review, the American Spectator, the Washington Times, and many other outlets. Born and raised in San Diego, CA, Crocker currently lives on the site of a former Confederate encampment in Virginia.
Table of Contents
| Why the South Was Right | |
| A Country of Their Own | p. 1 |
| The Gunpowder Trail | p. 19 |
| The History of the War in Sixteen Battles You Should Know | |
| Dixie Rising, 1861-1863 | p. 39 |
| The Long Goodbye, 1863-1865 | p. 77 |
| Eminent Civil War Generals | |
| Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) | p. 95 |
| George H, Thomas (1816-1870) | p. 113 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman (1810-1891) | p. 133 |
| James Longstreet (1821-1904) | p. 155 |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) | p. 173 |
| Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) | p. 199 |
| Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson (1824-1863) | p. 223 |
| A. P. Hill (1825-1865) | p. 243 |
| George B. McClellan (1826-1885) | p. 263 |
| Call in the Cavalry | |
| A Cavalry Quartet:Wade Hampton (1818-1902), Philip Sheridan (1831-1888), J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864), and George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) | p. 283 |
| Beating Retreat | |
| What If the South Had Won? | p. 331 |
| Afterword | p. 339 |
| Notes | p. 341 |
| Index | p. 359 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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