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There was no Offensive-Defensive Confederate Strategy
- The Journal of Military History
- Society for Military History
- Volume 73, Number 2, April 2009
- pp. 571-590
- 10.1353/jmh.0.0252
- Article
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Jefferson Davis is credited with authoring an offensive-defensive Confederate strategy. This pillar of Civil War historiography is incorrect, having been derived from a misunderstanding of the levels of policy and war, and the misreading of scant primary source documentation.