Description
On this widely heralded book first published in 1986, four historians believe the popularly held explanations for southern defeat―state-rights disputes, inadequate military provide and strategy, and the Union blockade―undergirding their discussion with a chronological account of the war’s progress. In spite of everything, the authors in finding that the South lacked the desire to win, that weak Confederate nationalism and the strength of a bizarre brand of evangelical Protestantism sapped the South’s ability to continue a war that used to be no longer yet lost at the field.