(Hardback)

Part of a series which examines the complex relationship between the US government, the US military, and the civilian population in wartime and peacetime, this work analyzes the militarization of life in the Confederacy. It probes the relationships between military commanders, legislators, and Jefferson Davis and his administration.

(Hardback)

A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort.