Formerly Assistant Professor of United States History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, William Blair is now Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also the Director of the Civil War Era Institute. He won the 1996 Allan Nevins Prize (given by the American Society of Historians for the best American History dissertation) and served as the co-editor of A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary (1995).

"Recipient of the Nevins Prize for dissertations, this compact work re-examines whether domestic strife led to the Confederacy's defeat. By focusing on a single state, William Blair provides a perspective that broader national studies have been unable to achieve....Blair's provocative interpretation about the role civilians played in the war's outcome will interest both scholars and students of this era."--Civil War History

• Introduction ; 1. A Slave Society Goes to War ; 2. Problems of Labor and Order, April 1861-April 1862 ; 3. A Growing Sense of Injustice, April 1862-April 1863 ; 4. Toward a Rich Man's Fight, April 1863-April 1864 ; 5. Between Privation's Devil and the Union's Blue Sea, March 1864-April 1865 ; 6. The Problem of Confederate Identity ; Notes ; Bibliography

Formerly Assistant Professor of United States History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, William Blair is now Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also the Director of the Civil War Era Institute. He won the 1996 Allan Nevins Prize (given by the American Society of Historians for the best American History dissertation) and served as the co-editor of A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary (1995).

"Recipient of the Nevins Prize for dissertations, this compact work re-examines whether domestic strife led to the Confederacy's defeat. By focusing on a single state, William Blair provides a perspective that broader national studies have been unable to achieve....Blair's provocative interpretation about the role civilians played in the war's outcome will interest both scholars and students of this era."--Civil War History

• Introduction ; 1. A Slave Society Goes to War ; 2. Problems of Labor and Order, April 1861-April 1862 ; 3. A Growing Sense of Injustice, April 1862-April 1863 ; 4. Toward a Rich Man's Fight, April 1863-April 1864 ; 5. Between Privation's Devil and the Union's Blue Sea, March 1864-April 1865 ; 6. The Problem of Confederate Identity ; Notes ; Bibliography

Formerly Assistant Professor of United States History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, William Blair is now Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also the Director of the Civil War Era Institute. He won the 1996 Allan Nevins Prize (given by the American Society of Historians for the best American History dissertation) and served as the co-editor of A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary (1995).

"Recipient of the Nevins Prize for dissertations, this compact work re-examines whether domestic strife led to the Confederacy's defeat. By focusing on a single state, William Blair provides a perspective that broader national studies have been unable to achieve....Blair's provocative interpretation about the role civilians played in the war's outcome will interest both scholars and students of this era."--Civil War History

• Introduction ; 1. A Slave Society Goes to War ; 2. Problems of Labor and Order, April 1861-April 1862 ; 3. A Growing Sense of Injustice, April 1862-April 1863 ; 4. Toward a Rich Man's Fight, April 1863-April 1864 ; 5. Between Privation's Devil and the Union's Blue Sea, March 1864-April 1865 ; 6. The Problem of Confederate Identity ; Notes ; Bibliography