What if the C.S. Capitol had remained @ Montgomery, Ala? How different would the War been fought if the Capitols weren't so close, with 2 huge Army's in blocking positions in between?
Good chance the blockade would have eventually strangled the Confederacy in a purly military senario, but... I believe the War was won/lost in the West. The Confed generals in the west, for the most part wern't @ the top of thier game. With more competant a leader than Bragg....as it was it took the idiocy of Hood that gave Atlanta to Sherman in turn giving Lincoln reelection. With better Gens & a few more Chickamaugas....a political victory might have happen for the CSA vs military defeat. More to it than a glib dismissal that the sandals comment was.Not much, the brief forays into Northern Territory may have not happened with the Army of Virgina. But the Northern states would still have industry and a naval choke hold on their side. So the long term result would ultimately most likely turned out the same. This is like saying what would happen if all Confederate field officers wore sandals the entire war what impact that would make.
Good chance the blockade would have eventually strangled the Confederacy in a purly military senario, but... I believe the War was won/lost in the West. The Confed generals in the west, for the most part wern't @ the top of thier game. With more competant a leader than Bragg....as it was it took the idiocy of Hood that gave Atlanta to Sherman in turn giving Lincoln reelection. With better Gens & a few more Chickamaugas....a political victory might have happen for the CSA vs military defeat. More to it than a glib dismissal that the sandals comment was.
What if the C.S. Capitol had remained @ Montgomery, Ala? How different would the War been fought if the Capitols wern't so close, with 2 huge Armys in blocking positions in between?
In theory North Vietnam couldn't have won either, but Wars can be won politically. Lincoln might not have been reelected in Bragg had puished on after Chickamauga & destroyed the Union Army & retaken Tennessee, leaving the deep South Yankee free come election time. As it was Sherman only got it with a couple months to spare.I don't think it would have mattered where they put the capital as they lacked the manpower, infrastructure and industrial base to fight a protracted war.
I also think people tend to romanticise Lee as some great leader who given more would have led the South to victory when in reality he never won an offensive battle and was overly cautous throughout the war, I personally think the South lost its best General when Jackson was killed.
In the end as long as the North had the will to fight the South was doomed.
In theory North Vietnam couldn't have won either, but Wars can be won politically. Lincoln might not have been reelected in Bragg had puished on after Chickamauga & destroyed the Union Army & retaken Tennessee, leaving the deep South Yankee free come election time. As it was Sherman only got it with a couple months to spare.
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