Why the South Lost the Civil WarIn 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. |
Contents
Chapter | 3 |
Religion and the Chosen People | 82 |
Union Concentration in Time and Space | 236 |
The Battle Is the Lords | 268 |
THE SOUTH RECONCILES ITSELF TO DEFEAT | 295 |
The Last Campaigns | 299 |
God Guilt and the Confederacy in Collapse | 336 |
Coming to Terms with Slavery | 368 |
Owsleys StateRights Thesis | 443 |
Confederate Casualties and War Effort | 458 |
Notes | 483 |
Religion and the Chosen People | 490 |
Chapter 6 | 498 |
Chapter 7 | 508 |
Chapter 9 | 531 |
Bibliography | 537 |
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References to this book
Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland Benjamin Franklin Cooling Limited preview - 1989 |
The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877 J. William Harris No preview available - 2006 |