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Description for Traitors
Hardback. Num Pages: 281 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 21. Weight in Grams: 603.
A myth has grown that there were no traitors during the period leading up to the American Civil War. Edward S. Cooper debunks that myth in this book. He provides documentation that officers on active duty in the army and navy of the United States secretly negotiated for positions in the Confederacy, surrendered their ships, forts, and posts to state authorities, conspired in the seizure of other forts, deserted their posts and advised their subordinates to join them, and wrote letters detailing how the Confederacy could defeat the very army and navy in which they were serving. Members of the ... Read more
A myth has grown that there were no traitors during the period leading up to the American Civil War. Edward S. Cooper debunks that myth in this book. He provides documentation that officers on active duty in the army and navy of the United States secretly negotiated for positions in the Confederacy, surrendered their ships, forts, and posts to state authorities, conspired in the seizure of other forts, deserted their posts and advised their subordinates to join them, and wrote letters detailing how the Confederacy could defeat the very army and navy in which they were serving. Members of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473650
SKU
V9781611473650
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About Edward S. Cooper
Edward S. Cooper has also authored Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor and William Worth Belknap: An American Disgrace (FDUP).
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