Bitterly Divided

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From David Williams, author of *A People's History of the Civil War*, comes a revolutionary account of the Confederacy's collapse from within. Williams argues the Confederacy fought a pervasive internal civil war, revealing widespread white Southern opposition to secession, draft resistance, women's food riots, and mass desertion that critically undermined the war effort. Challenging the myth of Southern unity, this gripping history exposes how nearly half a million Southerners served the Union, demonstrating that internal dissent, not just external conflict, ultimately doomed the Confederate cause.