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Baker, T. Lindsay, Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey (Chapter 6: Collapse of the Confederacy), University of Arkansas Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55728-838-7 Badeau, Adam, Grant in Peace: From Appomattox to Mount McGregor; a Personal Memoir , S.S. Scranton & Company, 1887
Confederate armies successfully reoccupying territory could not be resupplied directly by rail as they advanced. The C.S. Congress formally authorized military administration of railroads in February 1865. In the last year before the end of the war, the Confederate railroad system stood permanently on the verge of collapse.
Pickett's Charge on July 3 is considered the high-water mark of the Confederacy because it signaled the collapse of serious Confederate threats of victory. Lee's army suffered 28,000 casualties, versus Meade's 23,000. [155]
A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Last Days of the Confederacy is a 1986 non-fiction book by Michael B. Ballard, published by the University Press of Mississippi.. The book describes the collapse of the Confederate States of America during the United States Civil War and the aftermath of the said collapse, among it the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Rakove identifies several factors that explain the collapse of the Confederation. [45] The lack of compulsory direct taxation power was objectionable to those wanting a strong centralized state or expecting to benefit from such power. It could not collect customs after the war because tariffs were vetoed by Rhode Island. Rakove concludes that ...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy named a chapter in Alabama after Col. Rucker about 37 years ago. But an even bigger honor came back in 1942, when the US military named an Army base in ...
By early 1865, the Confederate dollar had nearly zero value, and the Southern banking system was in collapse by the war's end. Where scarce Union dollars could not be obtained, residents resorted to a barter system.
The book critiques earlier theories on why the Confederacy collapsed, [5] as well as earlier Civil War scholarship in general. [1] The book argues that the issues in the Southern economy did not primarily damage the military but instead damaged civilian life.