* [[Confederate States of America]]
==Bibliography==
===Surveys and reference books===
* Beringer, Richard E., Archer Jones, and Herman Hattaway, ''Why the South Lost the Civil War'' (1986) influential analysis of factors; ''The Elements of Confederate Defeat: Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion'' (1988), abridged version
* Donald, David ''et al.'' ''The Civil War and Reconstruction'' (latest edition 2001); excellent 700 page survey* Fellman, Michael et al. ''This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath'' (2nd ed. 2007), excellent 544 page survey
* Ford, Lacy K., ed. ''A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction.'' Blackwell, 2005. 518 pp. 23 essays by scholars [http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Reconstruction-Blackwell-Companions-American/dp/0631215514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209196349&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Goldin, Claudia D., and Frank D. Lewis, "The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and Implications," ''Journal of Economic History'' 35#2 (June 1975), pp. 299-326 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2119410 in JSTOR]