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The Battle of Glendale

The Day the South Nearly Won the Civil War

Jim Stempel author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:27th Apr '11

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The Battle of Glendale cover

It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps the best of the South's limited opportunities to turn the tide, this provocative study argues that Confederate victory was indeed possible. On June 30, 1862, at a small Virginia crossroads known as Glendale, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee sliced the retreating Army of the Potomac in two and came remarkably close to destroying their Federal foe. Only a string of command miscues on the part of the Confederates--and a stunning command failure by Stonewall Jackson--enabled the Union army to escape a defeat that day, one that may well have vaulted the South to its independence. Never before or after would the Confederacy come as close to transforming American history as it did at the Battle of Glendale.

ISBN: 9780786463008

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm

Weight: 299g

222 pages