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Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, ranging from the 800-odd newspapers in operation during the war to the personal writings of more than 100 leaders and common citizens, Davis reveals the Confederacy through the words of t.
McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom) , offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any other.
Davis, "one of the best and most prolific historians of the American Civil War" (James M.
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