The South vs. The South
William Freehling, The South vs. The South. (New York, NY: Oxford University, 2001)
William W. Freehling is an American historian, and Professor of History and Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities at the University of Kentucky, and is the author of The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Disunionists at Bay, 1776 – 1854, which won the Owsley Prize. William Freehling's The South vs. The South book is two hundred and thirty-eight pages and divided into ten chapters. The narrative of the Civil War that focuses on the majority of southern white and black, who opposed the Confederacy. Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? How anti-Confederates Southerners shaped the sequence of the Civil War? Freehling argues in The South vs. The South book that the Union troops from the South Border States who are whites and Southerner blacks helped cost the Confederacy the war. Also, he argues that the Confederacy lost because it failed to gain the allegiance of the border states (Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland) and then lost the loyalty of enough whites and slaves that it gave the Union a vital manpower boost. The South vs. The South book reveals the great division, even during …show more content…
The South is a very interesting and good analysis book to read for anyone who is interested in history and for those who is studying or interested in the Civil War. It is also a great book for high school or college level students, but it is not an easy book for someone like me who didn’t grow up learning about it from an early age. Unless they have a prior knowledge about the Civil War history. The book is very deep with a lot of information and sometimes it is hard to understand everything that had happened during the Civil War, but it makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and what leads to the to the Civil War. I cannot say the book answered all my questions, but I am left with the new insights which I am not familiar
William Freehling, The South vs. The South. (New York, NY: Oxford University, 2001)
William W. Freehling is an American historian, and Professor of History and Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities at the University of Kentucky, and is the author of The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Disunionists at Bay, 1776 – 1854, which won the Owsley Prize. William Freehling's The South vs. The South book is two hundred and thirty-eight pages and divided into ten chapters. The narrative of the Civil War that focuses on the majority of southern white and black, who opposed the Confederacy. Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? How anti-Confederates Southerners shaped the sequence of the Civil War? Freehling argues in The South vs. The South book that the Union troops from the South Border States who are whites and Southerner blacks helped cost the Confederacy the war. Also, he argues that the Confederacy lost because it failed to gain the allegiance of the border states (Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland) and then lost the loyalty of enough whites and slaves that it gave the Union a vital manpower boost. The South vs. The South book reveals the great division, even during …show more content…
The South is a very interesting and good analysis book to read for anyone who is interested in history and for those who is studying or interested in the Civil War. It is also a great book for high school or college level students, but it is not an easy book for someone like me who didn’t grow up learning about it from an early age. Unless they have a prior knowledge about the Civil War history. The book is very deep with a lot of information and sometimes it is hard to understand everything that had happened during the Civil War, but it makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and what leads to the to the Civil War. I cannot say the book answered all my questions, but I am left with the new insights which I am not familiar