Why the South Lost the Civil War

by Archer Jones, William N. Still, Jr., Herman Hattaway et al.

1986 582 pages eng

A very readable (though lengthy) analysis of what caused the South to surrender to the North in 1865 -- when, per the authors, the south had not been militarily defeated (i.e., it had the means to continue military operations in a variety of ways) and was unlikely to be defeated and "conquered" mili…