We all know that, ultimately, the South lost the civil war. But this didn't necessarily mean that the South couldn't win it.
When the South seceded from the Union, the South had significant advantages. One was that the South's primary goal was to start as a new country. However, the North's objective was to force the South to reunite. This meant that the North had no intention to annihilate the South while the South was ready to fight back when necessary. This provided much more motivation to the Southerners than the worried Northerners.
Also, the South had a home field advantage. This brings back to the idea of the Revolutionary War, in which the South can be compared to colonial America, and the North, Great Britain. The South was able to station its troops within its perimeters and wait for the Northerners to travel all the way down and strike. And if the North decided to trap the South from trade, the South was still the home of slavery, which meant they had more access to crops. Without the South, it also harmed the North, since it did not get as many raw materials from internal trade.
Although the South lost the war, I believe that it was very possible for them to win. Other advantages they had were better generals and cotton, and by utilizing all these effectively, the South could have been able to hold out long enough for the North to finally stop and accept the South as its neighboring nation.
I agree with your post on how if the Confederacy had used their advantages in the right way and had a different startegy, they could've won the war. The Confederacy could've struck many blows to the Union had they used their few advantages right. They could've used Robert E. Lee and his experience to conquer the UNion aries with their constantly fluctuating numbers of soldiers and weak generals.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this post. South could have won and seceeded if they how big their advantages were
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