Böcker av Joseph L. Harsh

In this reexamination of Confederate war aims, Joseph Harsh analyses the military policy and grand strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War. Harsh argues that Davis and Lee's policies allowed the Confederacy to survive longer than it otherwise could have.

Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy.