Richmond Views the West Sean Patrick Adams Watarrka (King’s Canyon)

Watarrka (King’s Canyon)

Lucien Darjeun Meadows

Was the Mahogany Ship first sighted in 1836 half-buried in sand dunes in the south-east of Victoria the wreck of a Portuguese caravel

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Richmond Views the West Sean Patrick Adams Watarrka (King’s Canyon)How did politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, and civilians in Richmond understand a war being fought a thousand miles away? Expert Civil War historian Larry Daniel shows for the first time how poor intelligence, fierce politics, and cultural prejudice affected Confederate strategy in the Western Theater. In his novel approach to understanding the Western Theater of the U. S. Civil War, Larry Daniel brings new insight and understanding to the war