Absalom, Absalom!, 276 (Event)

Page Number: 
276
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
since it was '64 and then '65 and the starved
Page Event Ends: 
276
Era: 
Civil War (1861-1865)
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, January 1, 1864 to Tuesday, February 28, 1865
Summary: 

The narrative lists a number of Confederate defeats in the Civil War's western theater, and attributes them not to the enemy, but to the incompetence of Southern generals whose commands were bestowed on them by the "absolute caste system" of the Old South (276). Chronologically, the battles cited are "Corinth" - Mississippi, 1862; "Vicksburg" - Mississippi, 1863; "Chickamauga" - Georgia, 1863; "Atlanta" - Georgia, 1864; "Franklin" - Tennessee, 1864. [SOURCE: Narrator]

Chronological Order: 
332.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Civil_War:Battles, Old_South, Caste_System, Defeat, Romanticism

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