A House Divided During the Civil War Era
, by Carlisle, Rodney P.- ISBN: 9781851098811 | 185109881X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/1/2007
With its superior industrial base, and decided advantages in weapons and financing, the Union army's victory over the armies of the Confederacy may have seemed inevitable. But it was far from a foregone conclusion. The war might have played out very differently if certain circumstances and decisions had changed. What if, for example, Frederick Douglass had strongly supported John Brown's raid? What if Confederate general Robert E. Lee had won at Antietam?