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TheCollapseoftheConfederacy keyissuesofthecivilwarera serieseditors MarkGrimsley OhioStateUniversity BrooksD.Simpson ArizonaStateUniversity The Collapse of the Confederacy Edited by Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson UniversityofNebraskaPress,LincolnandLondon ©2001bytheUniversityofNebraskaPress Allrightsreserved ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica (cid:1)(cid:1) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ThecollapseoftheConfederacy/editedby MarkGrimsleyandBrooksD.Simpson. p. cm.–(KeyissuesoftheCivilWarera) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-8032-2170-3(cloth:alkpaper) 1.ConfederateStatesofAmerica–History 2.ConfederatestatesofAmerica-Politics andgovernment. 3.ConfederateStatesof America–Socialconditions. 4.UnitedStates– History–CivilWar,1861–1865–Campaigns. 5.UnitedStates–History–CivilWar, 1861–1865–Socialaspects. I.Grimsley,Mark. II.Simpson,BrooksD. III.Series. E487.C67 2001 973.7'13—dc21 00–059969 Contents ListofMaps,vii MarkGrimsleyandBrooksD.Simpson Introduction,1 StevenE.Woodworth TheLastFunctionofGovernment: ConfederateCollapseandNegotiatedPeace,13 MarkGrimsley LearningtoSay“Enough”:SouthernGenerals andtheFinalWeeksoftheConfederacy,40 BrooksD.Simpson FacilitatingDefeat:TheUnionHighCommand andtheCollapseoftheConfederacy,80 WilliamB.Feis JeffersonDavisandthe“GuerrillaOption”: AReexamination,104 GeorgeC.Rable Despair,Hope,andDelusion:TheCollapseof ConfederateMoraleReexamined,129 JeanV.Berlin DidConfederateWomenLosetheWar?Deprivation, Destruction,andDespairontheHomeFront,168 Index,195 Maps Situation,January1,1865,7 Situation,February2,1865,44 ProposedConfederateconcentration,53 Situation,March8,1865,54 Situation,March18,1865,56 Situation,April12,1865,63 FortStedmanandFiveForks,94 PursuitanddefeatofLee,April3–9,1865,97 TheCollapseoftheConfederacy

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Practically all Civil War historians agree that after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and Lincoln's triumphant reelection in November, the South had no remaining chance to make good its independence. Well aware that Appomattox and Durham Station were close at hand, historians have treated the

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TheCollapseoftheConfederacy keyissuesofthecivilwarera serieseditors MarkGrimsley OhioStateUniversity BrooksD.Simpson ArizonaStateUniversity The Collapse of the Confederacy Edited by Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson UniversityofNebraskaPress,LincolnandLondon ©2001bytheUniversityofNebraskaPress Allrightsreserved ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica (cid:1)(cid:1) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ThecollapseoftheConfederacy/editedby MarkGrimsleyandBrooksD.Simpson. p. cm.–(KeyissuesoftheCivilWarera) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-8032-2170-3(cloth:alkpaper) 1.ConfederateStatesofAmerica–History 2.ConfederatestatesofAmerica-Politics andgovernment. 3.ConfederateStatesof America–Socialconditions. 4.UnitedStates– History–CivilWar,1861–1865–Campaigns. 5.UnitedStates–History–CivilWar, 1861–1865–Socialaspects. I.Grimsley,Mark. II.Simpson,BrooksD. III.Series. E487.C67 2001 973.7'13—dc21 00–059969 Contents ListofMaps,vii MarkGrimsleyandBrooksD.Simpson Introduction,1 StevenE.Woodworth TheLastFunctionofGovernment: ConfederateCollapseandNegotiatedPeace,13 MarkGrimsley LearningtoSay“Enough”:SouthernGenerals andtheFinalWeeksoftheConfederacy,40 BrooksD.Simpson FacilitatingDefeat:TheUnionHighCommand andtheCollapseoftheConfederacy,80 WilliamB.Feis JeffersonDavisandthe“GuerrillaOption”: AReexamination,104 GeorgeC.Rable Despair,Hope,andDelusion:TheCollapseof ConfederateMoraleReexamined,129 JeanV.Berlin DidConfederateWomenLosetheWar?Deprivation, Destruction,andDespairontheHomeFront,168 Index,195 Maps Situation,January1,1865,7 Situation,February2,1865,44 ProposedConfederateconcentration,53 Situation,March8,1865,54 Situation,March18,1865,56 Situation,April12,1865,63 FortStedmanandFiveForks,94 PursuitanddefeatofLee,April3–9,1865,97 TheCollapseoftheConfederacy

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Practically all Civil War historians agree that after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and Lincoln's triumphant reelection in November, the South had no remaining chance to make good its independence. Well aware that Appomattox and Durham Station were close at hand, historians have treated the

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