WINNER OF THE JEFFERSON DAVIS AWARD Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883) became one of the South’s leading politicians and lawyers. Thomas E.
American historians describe the activities of eight Confederate generals who fought west of the Mississippi River during the US Civil War--the theater that historians have neglected most. They co
The final book in the series, this volume contains 10 essays that describe Confederate generals who served in the Western Theater of the Civil War: Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Robert E. Lee, Benjamin H
In contrast to Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, the armies and events of the Civil War’s Trans-Mississippi Theater have received scant historical attention, to the detriment of our understan
A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals, and a biography of Huey Long that
With the Conscription Act of 1862, the Confederacy enacted the first military draft in American history. Rather than face duty with strangers in an uncertain locale, twenty-eight-year-old Edmund Trent
