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Book Review

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. By Harold S. Wilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. xxii, 412 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-462-7.)
Harold S. Wilson's study of Confederate industry is a welcome addition to Civil War scholarship. As he points out, work on this topic "is surprisingly meager" (p. viii). Southern manufacturers, Wilson writes, were caught between a "militant enemy abroad and political hostility at home" (p. 3). He ably deals first with the struggle within the Confederacy to control industrial output and then with the effort of the enemy to destroy it. The great irony of the Confederate States of America was that a government dedicated to an ideology of states' rights was driven "to the brink of military socialism" in its effort to win a war (p. 42). Wilson explains that there were "increasingly stringent regulations governing Southern manufacturing" as the war progressed (p. 4). . . .
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