Grady Mcwhiney: 3 books
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A Civil War history classic, now back in print.
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Volume I, examines General Braxton Bragg’s military prowess beginning with his enlistment in the Confederate Army in 1862 to the spring of 1863. First published in 1969, this is the first of two volumes...
Cracker Culture
Celtic Ways in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term “Cracker” initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the...
Attack and Die
Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“In the first twenty-seven months of combat 175,000 Southern soldiers died. This number was more than the entire Confederate military force in the summer of 1861, and it far exceeded the strength of any army that Lee ever commanded. More than 80,000 Southerners fell in just five battles. At Gettysburg...