Harold Holzer

Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College Harold Holzer

G. S. Boritt

Mark E. Neely

Mark E. Neely, Jr.

Director of the Civil War Institute and Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies Gabor S Boritt

Examines the treatment of Confederate soldiers and generals in lithographs and engravings from 1861 to 1907

Prints of the Lost Cause

The Confederate Image

Confederate General P.G.T.Beauregard once wrote that "no people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederates." If there was any doubt as to what Beauregard sought to imply, he later to chose to spell it out: the failure of the Confederacy lay with the Confederate president Jefferson Davis. In Jefferson Davis' Generals, a team of the nation's most distinguished Civil War historians present fascinating examinations of the men who led the Confederacy through our nation's bloodiest conflict, focusing in particular on Jefferson Davis' relationships with five key generals who held independent commands: Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, and John Bell Hood. Craig Symonds examines the underlying implications of a withering trust between Johnston and his friend Jefferson Davis. And was there really harmony between Davis and Robert E. Lee? A tenuous harmony at best, according to Emory Thomas. Michael Parrish explores how Beauregard and Davis worked through a deep and mutual loathing, while Steven E. Woodworth and Herman Hattaway make contrasting evaluations of the competence of Generals Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood. Taking a different angle on Davis' ill-fated commanders, Lesley Gordon probes the private side of war through the roles of the generals' wives, and Harold Holzer investigates public perceptions of the Confederate leadership through printed images created by artists of the day. Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson's final chapter ties the individual essays together and offers a new perspective on Confederate strategy as a whole. Jefferson Davis' Generals provides stimulating new insights into one of the most vociferously debated topics in Civil War history.

Jefferson Davis's Generals

Abraham Lincoln

Peter C. Vermilyea

Jakob B. Boritt

Deborah R. Huso

-- Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Lincoln Herald

Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from Abraham Lincoln

G. S. Boritt

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