The Battle of Glendale: The Day the South Nearly Won the Civil War - Softcover

Stempel, Jim

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9780786463008: The Battle of Glendale: The Day the South Nearly Won the Civil War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0786463007 ISBN 13: 9780786463008
Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2011

Synopsis

It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps the best of the South's limited opportunities to turn the tide, this provocative study argues that Confederate victory was indeed possible. On June 30, 1862, at a small Virginia crossroads known as Glendale, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee sliced the retreating Army of the Potomac in two and came remarkably close to destroying their Federal foe. Only a string of command miscues on the part of the Confederates--and a stunning command failure by Stonewall Jackson--enabled the Union army to escape a defeat that day, one that may well have vaulted the South to its independence. Never before or after would the Confederacy come as close to transforming American history as it did at the Battle of Glendale.

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About the Author

Jim Stempel is an authority of the Eastern campaigns of the American Civil War. His articles on psychology, human development, and warfare have also appeared in the New Times, Concepts In Human Development, and North & South. He lives in western Maryland.

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Publisher
McFarland & Company
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0786463007
ISBN 13 
9780786463008
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
222
Rating
  • 3.00 out of 5 stars
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