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With the range of advantages enjoyed by the North during the Civil War, I have to ask this question: did the South even have a chance? Or, was it a foregone conclusion that the North would come out victorious?
Alright, so I was reading through this list of facts about the Civil War and came to #78:
The South expected to win because 1) Northerners did not know their way around the South, where most of the fighting would take place, 2) Southern farmers were already skilled marksmen and riding horses, and 3) they were fighting to save a way of life.b
No the South never had a snowball's chance of victory. The North outnumbered the South nine to one in manpower and held even greater advantages in industrial capacity, railroad mileage, and other infrastructure necessary for a war of attrition.
Agree with Donnie on this one. The Civil War was a forlorn hope from almost the beginning. If the South did not land a knockout blow the first year it was just a matter of time. The South's only hope was always to bring the North to the table and negotiate a peace and that was not going to happen with Lincoln in the White House.
