Retreat to Victory? Confederate Strategy

Did Confederate armies attack too often for their own good? Was the relentless, sometimes costly effort to preserve territory a blunder? Why great battles in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee rather than well-laid ambushes in Alabama's sandh

Robert G. Tanner is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. A native of Southern California, he now lives and practices law in Atlanta, Georgia. Tanner has studied and lectured on the Civil War for more than twenty-five years

Introduction

xi

Confederate Strategy: An Overview

1

(22)

Confederate Geography

23

(24)

Rebel Armies on the March

47

(26)

On Clausewitz

73

(14)

Slavery and Confederate Strategy

87

(28)

Independence and Confederate Strategy

115

(26)

No Place to Hide

141

(8)

Bibliographical Essay

149

(6)

Index

155

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Retreat to Victory? Confederate Strategy Reconsidered

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