Jumat, 22 September 2017

CWT Book Review: Starving the South

Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War by Andrew F. Smith, St. Martin’s Press Unlike the Midwest, which produced huge quantities of wheat and meat in the 1860s, Southern plantation owners focused mostly on cotton and tobacco. When Union forces in the West seized Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and Nashville, Confederates faced …

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