NF Book excerpt: The Civil War eventually had to be a war on Southern white culture

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Book excerpt: The Civil War eventually had to be a war on Southern white culture
  • By Thomas E. Ricks
  • October 19, 2016
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What Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and the hard men who served under them knew by early 1864 was that their armies were going to have to break the popular will of the Confederate people, not only in the present, but also for the future, or the North was not going to win the war.

More: http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/19...ly-had-to-be-a-war-on-southern-white-culture/
 
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