Behind The Lines In The Southern Confederacy (Louisiana PBK); Author: Ramsdell, Charles; Editor: Stephenson, Wendell H.; Paperback

Author: Ramsdell, Charles; Editor: Stephenson, Wendell H.
Louisiana PBK Edition; Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History (Paperback); Paperback; 1 Halftone
160 pages
Published: May 1997
Louisiana State University Press
ISBN: 080712186X

In this groundbreaking study, Charles W. Ramsdell maintains that deficiencies on the homefront were fundamental to the collapse of the Confederacy. The war, he argues, raised unexpected problems that the southern people were unprepared to solve. Weakened and demoralized, the civilian population could not adequately support its armies, causing the Confederacy to break down from within long before the military situation appeared desperate.In this study, the author maintains that deficiences on the homefront were fundamental to the collapse of the Confederacy. The war, he argues, raised unexpected problems that the Southern people were unprepared to solve, and unable to adequately support its army.