The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens

The Journal of Southern History | November 1, 2002| | Copyright

The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens. By William C. Davis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 284. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1088-X.)

William C. Davis may be the most prolific Civil War historian of his generation. In fact, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy is but one of three books on war-related topics that he brought out in 2001; the other two are a study of the collapse of the Confederacy and a biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett. For many years an independent scholar, but now at Virginia Tech, Davis has taken on a variety of ...

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