Southern Strategies Print

Southern Strategies PrintSouthern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed Edited by Christian B. Keller Southern Strategies is the first ever analysis of Confederate defeat using the lenses of classical strategic and leadership theory. The contributors bring over one hundred years of experience in the field at the junior and senior levels of military leadership and over forty years of teaching in professional military education. Well aware that the nature of war is immutable

It saw the emergence of the Federal cavalry as an effective intelligence collector and screening force

Few works truly are 'must-haves' for a Civil War collection

as well as hard riding

Museum of the Confederacy

Once the armies left North Carolina after the surrender

its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion

a community that likewise suffered invasion in the summer of 1863 as well as at the role of Union and Confederate soldiers from the new state of West Virginia who fought against each other during the campaign

a common challenge is the lack of adequate maps

They suffered from the physical difficulties of military life

death and all three burials

while tactical maps reveal the intricacies of regimental and battery movements

and in doing so reveals that many long-held assumptions about the Confederate experience in Maryland do not hold up under close scrutiny