Really interesting even if you don't care much for that time period.
Yes, but the North sucked so bad early on in the war that they produced all the guns the south needed. They were just distributed through a middleman named Stonewall Jackson.Quote:
The souths largest gun maker made 30K weapons during the entire war where as the Springfield Armory made 15K weapons a month
Yet it took four years to subjugate the south.Madman said:
- The second largest city in the south at any given point was where ever the Union Army was currently camped
- NY City manufactured more than the entire south
- Confederate GDP was only 8% of the nations economy
- The souths largest gun maker made 30K weapons during the entire war where as the Springfield Armory made 15K weapons a month
- 22 million people in the north vs. 9 million in the south
- 4 million of the south's 9M were slaves
It was the 1918 Confederate Veterans reunion in Dallas. That is all the information describing the photo.XUSCR said:
RC,
Can you help a brother out and describe who is in that group photo? Assuming former confederate soldiers...
If so, any idea who it is?
Rabid Cougar said:Yet it took four years to subjugate the south.Madman said:
- The second largest city in the south at any given point was where ever the Union Army was currently camped
- NY City manufactured more than the entire south
- Confederate GDP was only 8% of the nations economy
- The souths largest gun maker made 30K weapons during the entire war where as the Springfield Armory made 15K weapons a month
- 22 million people in the north vs. 9 million in the south
- 4 million of the south's 9M were slaves
Must have more been to it than these numbers.
AgBQ-00 said:
Brief sidetrack here...if the confederates would have pressed to DC following first Manassas do you think the north would have pressed for peace then or would they have fled (moved the he government) and kept fighting?
Agreed, but the Rebels didn't necessarily need to go capture Washington DC in order to win the war. All they really needed was for the Union to grow so war weary that they no longer had the stomach for it. The president was already feeling the pressure. In my opinion a more interesting "what if" scenario would have been this: Had Lee not charged the Union center on day 3 at Gettysburg (resulting in the slaughter of Pickett's entire corps) and remained entrenched in the town, or even fallen back to more defend-able positions elsewhere in Pennsylvania (towards Harrisburg?), forcing the union to pursue them, what would the result have been? This would have allowed Lee to fight with a rested JEB Stuart's Cavalry and a fighting force of similar size. The Union may still have thrown so many numbers at them eventually and possibly cut off the supply lines that it probably wouldn't have mattered, but you never know what could have happened if the rebels had had a longer campaign fighting on Union ground. I cant imagine what stress Lincoln was under during this time (and Lee as well).Dr. Watson said:AgBQ-00 said:
Brief sidetrack here...if the confederates would have pressed to DC following first Manassas do you think the north would have pressed for peace then or would they have fled (moved the he government) and kept fighting?
Washington wasn't undefended during the battle (though hardly a fortress). It's hard to imagine the Confederate army left after Bull Run successfully capturing and holding the city.
Did they really need to hold?Dr. Watson said:Washington wasn't undefended during the battle (though hardly a fortress). It's hard to imagine the Confederate army left after Bull Run successfully capturing and holding the city.AgBQ-00 said:
Brief sidetrack here...if the confederates would have pressed to DC following first Manassas do you think the north would have pressed for peace then or would they have fled (moved the he government) and kept fighting?