num_pages: 624
description: 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.
language: English
title: Why the South Lost the Civil War
titlecomplete: Why the South Lost the Civil War (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.)
genres: 19th Century, History, American History, American Civil War, Nonfiction, Civil War, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 94
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Jefferson Davis Award
publisher: University of Georgia Press