South had 100% No Chance!
Think about it. North, abundant factories, people, land.....list goes on and on. Basically abundant resources. From our class discussion, the only weakness the Union had was that their commanders weren't as good because they made mistakes and also that south had more will. South had better Commanders? Who cares! Union has Abe Lincoln! South have more will to fight? I do understand that the South did have Texans who fought like bosses, but they have 9 million! Can they fight against 22 million? Also, that's not even including slaves reducing it to 4.5 million. Not only that, at the time, the ratio from men to women was 6:1. So, that means that you can make 4.5 million go down to 3.75 million. There were children too! The ratio of children was let's say 4:1 that makes 3.75 go down to 2.8 million. After all this, only 2.8 million people are capable actually "maybe willing" to fight. States rights stops you too! Almost 2/3 of the people at the time wanted to have states rights making the 2.8 million? Now less than a million. Okay, less than a million vs 22 million? It's not 22 million I know, but lets say you cut it by half even by 90% or more, Northerners will always out number the South. It's inevitable! North in general had way more advantages and less disadvantages than the South had. Almost all the Southern advantages were backed up by the North because of something. In the comments below, you can say something and there has to be something that North has that contradicts that making the advantage useless. I did already contradict some in this and comment! I'll answer ASAP. Yeah you are probably wondering why I wrote this much and I'm bored and (partially fun bloggin'). North! Bam! Victory was here before it started! Also, I think the North shouldn't give up becuase that the North has so much advantage why stop! (It's not like you're gonna lose anyways.)
Also there were many people who wondered 'Why do we need to fight the South'. More Northerners would have this idea when the Civil War begins to drag on longer. In addition, Abraham Lincoln is not the actual military general, but he is only the commander-in-chief. He can tell the soldiers and generals what to do, but some of them didn't and were cautious. The Union could've ended the war quickly, but hesitation dragged it even longer. With this slight hesitation, the South could have taken advantage of that and won some battles. Also they had 5.2 million militiamen in total not less than a million, because there were 9 million MEN minus the slaves (3.8 million). I don't think Mr. Harp said there were 9 million PEOPLE in the South, I think he means there were 9 million MEN in the South.
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DeleteI totally agree with you that even though the South had better generals, the North had Abraham Lincoln, who was the best thing the Union had. He could make the citizens of the Union calm and persuade them to keep fighting. However, as Casey said, Mr. Harp probably meant that there were 9 million men in their army.
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Deletehahaha this is pretty long. I agree with the fact that in general, the CSA had no chance in winning the war. In any case, you would see that if the confederate state's had 1 gun, THE UNION WOULD HAVE 25 LOLOLOLOL. The Union outnumbered the Confederates 5/1, and depending on how you count victories, had more strategically significant victories in determining the outcome of the war.
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