The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

by H. W. Crocker III

The politically correct history that dominates our schools and universities today insists that Jefferson Davis was another Hitler, Robert E. Lee was the equivalent of Rommel, and the Confederate States of America was our own little version of the Third Reich -- a blot on American history. But reality, as always, was different: the Old South, as H. W. Crocker III explains in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, had immense charm, grace and merit -- and a very strong Constitutional case. This book is a joyful myth-busting rebel yell that shatters today’s Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War -- and shows why, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, "America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South."

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This is the Politically Incorrect Guide that every Civil War buff and Southern partisan -- and everyone who is tired of liberal self-hatred that vilifies America's greatest heroes -- will have to have on his bookshelf, in his classroom, and under his Christmas tree.

• How Southern secession in 1861 was better founded in law than the secession of the American colonies from Britain in 1776

• Alexis de Tocqueville: his observation that racism was far more prevalent in free states than in slave states

• Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee: why they thought slavery would fade away naturally

• The widespread belief among leading Northern abolitionists that the Constitution was 'a covenant with death and an agreement with hell"

• How, before Nat Turner's Rebellion, there were at least three times more anti-slavery societies in the South than in the North

• "Landslide Lincoln": he won the election of 1860 with less than 40 percent of the popular vote

• The South: isolated by moral distaste for slavery? Hardly: the official newspaper of the Vatican editorialized on behalf of the South

• How the idea of bombing people "back to the Stone Age" got its start with the Federal siege of Vicksburg

• The Emancipation Proclamation: it didn’t free a single slave -- and caused draft riots in the North

• How the Federals waged a war against Southern civilians -- destroying their crops, their cities, and their homes

• The real Robert E. Lee: he considered slavery a political and moral evil and opposed secession -- and after the war, a New York newspaper thought he should run for president!

• The Confederate General whom Theodore Roosevelt termed "without any exception the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have brought forth"

• The real William Tecumseh Sherman: he loathed abolitionists, believed that Southerners needed to be exterminated, and their land resettled by Northerners, and professed not to know which was "the greater evil": slavery or democracy

• The renowned Confederate General who fought the battle of Sharpsburg while wearing carpet slippers, led black militia in battle against former Confederates after the war, and endorsed Ulysses S. Grant for president

• Nathan Bedford Forrest: though allegedly a commander of the Ku Klux Klan, he wanted more free blacks -- and Chinese -- in the South

• How both Grant and Lincoln thought the Mexican War was morally wrong, but had no qualms waging a far bloodier war to deny the South its independence

• Stonewall Jackson: a Unionist, even, initially, after the election of Abraham Lincoln -- and founder of a Sunday school for slaves where he taught them how to read

• The best Confederate General you've never heard of: he opposed slavery, owned no slaves, condemned lynching -- and was an ardent Southern patriot who resigned his commission even before his state left the Union

• Lincoln's top commander, General George McClellan: a Democrat who loathed abolitionists and disparaged the idea of racial equality -- and who, when he led his troops into western Virginia, threatened to "crush any attempt at insurrection" by the Southern slaves

• A failure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, he made quite a decent governor of New Jersey

• The Confederate cavalryman and former slave-owner who fought against segregation on Philadelphia railroad cars

• The Confederate General who was also an Episcopalian bishop -- and who dueled with Grant on and off the battlefield

• Phil Sheridan loathed Texans, Southerners in general, and the idea that enemy civilians (or at least their property) weren't a legitimate military target

• The Union officer who stood as best man for a Southern officer getting married on a Virginia plantation -- during the war!

• What Abraham Lincoln might have said -- if he let the South go peaceably, and what might have happened next

• The Confederacy: an evil empire? How Thomas Jefferson's grandson died fighting for the Confederacy -- and even the grandson of Francis Scott Key, author of the "Star- Spangled Banner," lined up with the South

• Governor Fidel Castro? Why Cuba would probably be a state in the Union if the South had won the war