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Article: The Collapse of the Confederacy.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Edited by Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson. Key Issues of the Civil War Era. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 201. $47.50, ISBN 0-8032-2170-3.)
"Nothing in his life became him, / Like the leaving it," said Malcolm about the Thane of Cawdor, who lived treacherously but died valiantly (Macbeth, 1.4.8-9). In a somewhat similiar spirit, Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson observe regarding the American Civil War that "the way in which a war ends matters nearly as much as who wins and who loses" (p. 11; emphasis in original). That is the rationale for this collection of six essays about The Collapse of the Confederacy. "The final ...