Robert E. Lee

The main issue described is the many different reasons for the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War. It talks about the different viewpoints of historians that seem to be biased toward the Confederacy. These opinions are divided in two categories: internal and external. The first opinion states "that the centrifugal forces of state rights killed the Confederacy." Frank Owsley states that the governors in North Carolina and Georgia withheld men and equipment from …

…understanding of the history of the United States Of America. Works Cited * Foner, Eric. "The South's Inner Civil War." American Heritage. March 1989, 47-56. * Foote, Shelby. Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign. (New York: The Modern Library, 1963). * Steele, John Gordon. "Paying for the War." American Heritage. March 1990, 22-27. * McPherson, James M. "The Differences Between the Antebellum North and South." Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction. 2nd ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.) 21-30.