Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) - Softcover

Charles W. Ramsdell (Author) & Wendell Holmes Stephenson (Editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080712186X ISBN 13: 9780807121863

Publisher: LSU Press, 1997

Synopsis

"A candid and truthful appraisal of the economic, financial, and social problems the Confederacy had to face."-Saturday Review of Literature In this groundbreaking study, Charles W. Ramsdell maintains that deficiencies on the homefront were fundamental to the collapse of the Confederacy. The war, he argues, raised unexpected problems that the southern people were unprepared to solve. Weakened and demoralized, the civilian population could not adequately support its armies, causing the Confederacy to break down from within long before the military situation appeared desperate. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "Stephenson's admirable Foreword and his bibliography of Ramsdell's writings give the book something of the character of a memorial volume that makes it the more welcome."-C. Vann Woodward Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Charles W. Ramsdell (1877-1942) was professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Reconstruction in Texas and A School History of Texas.

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About the Author

Charles W. Ramsdell (1877-1942) was professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Reconstruction in Texas and A School History of Texas.

From the Back Cover

In this groundbreaking study, Charles W. Ramsdell explores the causes of the South's defeat in the Civil War. Finding traditional military explanations insufficient, he argues that deficiencies on the homefront were fundamental to the collapse of the Confederacy.

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080712186X
• ISBN 13: 9780807121863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250