In this 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.
- ISBN10 0820308153
- ISBN13 9780820308159
- Publish Date 1 May 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Georgia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 608
- Language English