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Contents List of Maps, vii Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson Introduction, 1 Steven E. Woodworth The Last Function of Government: Confederate Collapse and Negotiated Peace, 13 Mark Grimsley Learning to Say “Enough”: Southern Generals and the Final Weeks of the Confederacy, 40 Brooks D. Simpson Facilitating Defeat: The Union High Command and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 80 William B. Feis Jefferson Davis and the “Guerrilla Option”: A Reexamination, 104 George C. Rable Despair, Hope, and Delusion: The Collapse of Confederate Morale Reexamined, 129 Jean V. Berlin Did Confederate Women Lose the War? Deprivation, Destruction, and Despair on the Home Front, 168 Index, 195 ...

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