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From T R Fehrenbach's "Lone Star":
"The lack of manufactures and resources and industrial skills was more fatal in the long run than the disparity in numbers between North and South. Without a navy, the Confederacy fought from isolation against impossible odds. Even so, however, the South made the cost of restoring the Union almost too great for the Northern states to bear. Confederate determination, gallantry, and military brilliance on the battlefield forced the North to fight a war of attrition. This bled the Confederacy to death, as both Grant and Lincoln knew it would, but in the summer of 1864, while General Grant was presiding over the 'unbroken Union funderal train' in the Wilderness, Union morale nearly crumbled. The peace party in the North was active, calling for negotiations or arbitration by outside nations - which would have meant tacitly giving up the South. Even in November, when the disintegration of the Confederacy was obvious, Lincoln won reelection by only 200,000 votes. Millions of Northerners did not think the war was worth the price: 300,000 Union dead. The AMerican Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in modern history, in terms of populations and forces engaged.
With sufficient munitions and any kind of industrial machine, the South would have made Union victory unfeasible."
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05-04-2002 08:03 AM
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