Why the South Lost the Civil War

Richard E. Beringer (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 (Author) HERMAN HATTAWAY is a professor of history at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and coauthor, with Archer Jones, of How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War.Archer Jones (Author) ARCHER JONES is emeritus professor of history and former dean at North Dakota State University.William N. Still Jr. (Author) 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.

[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.