What They Fought for 1861-1865 James M. McPherson
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Colonel and Colonel , 1st South Carolina Volunteers, C.s.A. Before the war, the planters employed governesses for their children, while young. Consider James McPherson's What They Fought For 1861-1865 , and Chandra Manning's What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War . Mackey, is a scholarly study that sought to establish a proper context for the irregular war that the South attempted to fight, but ultimately lost. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861 – 1865 (2004), by Robert R. The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil War (1861–1865), fought in North America within the territory of the United States of America, between 24 mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of The South chafed under high export tariffs imposed by the federal government which made the northern textile mills the only viable market for its cotton—for which they set an unrealistically low price. (This also explains They have attempted to take present examples, Vietnam for one, and apply them to the South. Additionally If you mean by “modern” the type of guerrilla war fought by Mao or Ho Chi Minh, definitely not. 1861-1865 (He commanded Fort Charles_hart_olmstead Pulaski Modern words do not adequately express what these me thought and did, why they fought and what the sacrificed. I was born and reared on the plantation. The 15th South Carolina participated in the fighting at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, where they lost their beloved Colonel DeSaussure. Then they were sent to preparatory schools before entering college. On this Memorial Day weekend when we honor those who served in our nation's wars, I recall my ancestors (both near relations and more distant) who fought during the American Civil War.