A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy

Chronicling four decisive months in 1861, the unique story of the birth of a nation within a nation examines the leaders of the Confederacy--from those who wanted war to those who wanted reconciliation--and their struggle to form a southern nation.

• An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government
• The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens
• The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
• Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America
• The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
• Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
• William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War (Civil War America)
• While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy
• Lincoln
• Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged