Why the South Lost the Civil War

In this widely heralded book first published in 1986, four historians consider the popularly held explanations for southern defeat — state-rights disputes, inadequate military supply and strategy, and the Union blockade — undergirding their discussion with a chronological account of the war's progress. In the end, the authors find that the South lacked the will to win, that weak Confederate nationalism and the strength of a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism sapped the South's ability to continue a war that was not yet lost on the field.

• Author
• Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, William N. Still Jr.

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 624

• Publisher
• University of Georgia Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780820313962

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 1991