Thursday, April 19, 2012
Nope the South didn't have a chance
Had the South set aside the belief of state rights and focus on winning the war, the South could have gained more manpower to fight the North. However, I believe that the North was going to win the war. True, the Civil war somehow kind of resembled the Revolutionary war in which the North was Great Britain and the South was the colonists. However, unlike Great Britain, the North doesn't have many flaws or drawbacks that the South can take advantage of. In class, Mr. Harp said the South has some advantages but they are not weaknesses to the North.
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Actually, he did say that the North's commanders made a lot of mistakes as well until Ulysses, and the North didn't think they had that much reason for fighting, so there was a fighting chance.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that the South's advantages didn't really affect the North's, and that the Union only had less than a handful of weaknesses. However it was their weaknesses that could have cost them the war. A lot of people questioned the motives of the war- was it a fight for the abolition of slavery? Or for the preservation of the Union? Also, many of the Nothern generals were too timid and too cautious which caused them to lose many of the major battles at the beginning of the war and which also caused it to drag on for so long. Which results in what I first pointed out: people questioning the war. The South could have taken full advantage of that. Could the feeling have been greater,could Abraham Lincoln never found the right general, the outcome of the war could have been completely the opposite.
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