Why the South Lost the Civil War - Hardcover

Beringer, Richard E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820308153 ISBN 13: 9780820308159

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1986

Synopsis

Offers a chronological account of the Civil War, reexamines theories for the South's defeat, and analyzes Confederate and Union military strategy

About this title

Review:

[The authors] show that the Southern states were not united around a single leader or cause. . . . In the end, they discovered that God did not wear gray.

--New York Times

The most comprehensive, sophisticated, and well-informed [book on this subject] I have ever read.

--New York Review of Books

Should be required reading for anyone interested in the Confederate experiment. Its superb analysis of the previous literature, including respectful disagreement with many of the conclusions of Owsley, McWhiney, Jamieson and other prominent historians, makes it an ideal starting point for any discussion of Confederate defeat.

--Dallas Times-Herald

About the Author:

Richard E. Beringer is a professor of history at the University of North Dakota and the coeditor of a volume of "The Papers of Jefferson Davis." Herman Hattaway is a professor of history at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and the coauthor with Archer Jones of "How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War." Archer Jones is emeritus professor of history and former dean at North Dakota State University. William N. Still Jr. is a professor of history at East Carolina University and the author of several books, including "Odyssey in Gray: A Diary of Confederate Service, 1863-1865."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0820308153
• ISBN 13: 9780820308159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608