17. Victory and Defeat

Questions:
1. Why did the South lose the war?
2. How did Southerners respond to defeat?

Gary W. Gallagher, “Defeat”, from The Confederate War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997)
David H. Donald, “Died of Democracy,” from Donald, ed., Why the North Won the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960) [UCL TEACHING COLLECTION: MAIN 3030]
James A. Roark, “A Loss of Mastery,” from Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: W. W. Norton, 1977)
Stephen V. Ash, “‘No River of Fire’: War Weariness and the Collapse of Resistance”, from When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm so Long: the aftermath of slavery (New York: Knopf, 1979)