A rousing, rollicking guide to the great war that shaped America-and to the spirit of the Old South that we need so much today. The politically correct history that dominates our schools and universities insists that Jefferson Davis was another Hitler, Robert E. Lee was the equivalent of Rommel, and the Confederate States of America was our own little version of the Third Reich-a blot on American history. But reality, as always, was different: the Old South, as H.W. Crocker III explains, had immense charm, grace, and merit-and a strong Constitutional case. This book is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today's Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War-and shows why, in the words of G.K. Chesterton, "America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South."

Part I. Why the South was right. A country of their own -- The gunpowder trail / Part II. The history of the war in sixteen battles you should know. Dixie rising, 1861-1863 -- The long goodbye, 1863-1865 / Part III. Eminent Civil War generals. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) -- George Thomas (1816-1870) -- William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) -- James Longstreet (1821-1904) -- Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) -- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) -- Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson (1824-1863) -- A. P. Hill (1825-1865) -- George B. McClellan (1826-1885) / Part IV. Call in the cavalry. A cavalry quartet: Wade Hampton (1818-1902), Philip Sheridan (1831-1888), J.E.B. Stuart (1833-1864), and George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) / Part V. Beating retreat. What if the South had won?.