The chapters/sections for our October discussion are listed below. Anyone interested in being a Group Moderator should contact Greg Martin at 116ovi@verizon.net and let him know which subject interests you.

“The Cause Lost Myths and Realities of the Confederacy” by William C. Davis

October 2008 Dinner Meeting Discussion Subject

The text is divided into four parts each consisting of three individual chapters.

Part One: Jefferson Davis and His Generals

1.    Jefferson Davis: The Mystery of the Myth

2.    Davis, Johnston, and Beauregard: The Triple Play that Crippled the Confederacy

3.    Davis and Lee: Partnership for Success

Part Two: Forgotten Wars

1.    The Siege of Charleston

2.    A Different Kind of War: Fighting in the West

3.    Forgotten Wars: The Confederate Trans-Mississippi

Part Three: Excuses, Turning Points, and Defeats

1.    Lost Will, Lost Causes

2.    The Turning Point That Wasn’t: The Confederates and the Election of 1864

3.    John C. Breckinridge and the Confederate Defeat

Part Four: The Confederacy in Myth and Posterity

1.    Stonewall Jackson in Myth and Memory

2.    Myths and Realities of the Confederacy

3.    The Civil War and the Confederacy in Cinema