Confederate Strategy Reconsidered.
Robert G. Tanner. Many have come to believe that the South might have won the Civil War if it had only avoided head-on battles and conducted an aggressive guerrilla campaign. Here, the author challenges that widely held theory, arguing that deep retreats and battle avoidance were not available to Southern leaders in planning their strategy. The South fought as it did for valid reasons, according to the author, and this book examines those reasons in detail. 186 pgs., 5½"x 8½", sfbd. #0C11621