Why the South Could Not Win the Civil War :: American America History

Why the southeasterly Could Not Win the Civil state of warEver since the day the South surrendered to the North in May of 1865, Americans have argued on why the South lost. Others argued that the South never had chance to win the war, in so far more than half a one thousand thousand people were killed, homes were lost and destroyed and families were torn apart. There are many theories to explain this, many arguing that the South never had a chance to win the Civil War to begin with, for the North out numbered and had better resources than the South at almost every point, militarily. industrially the South couldnt keep up in output of weapons, ammunition and other supplies. That is one of the main reasons the South looked overseas for help. Jefferson Davis knew that the South was at a harm so he looked to England and France. By the end of the war, the South had, more or less, plenty of weaponry still, but it just didnt have enough men to ingestion the guns. By getting either Engl and or France on the Confederate side, supplies would have been more plentiful and also it would have inevitably ended up doing heavy(p) damage economically to Englands maritime trade. However, the fact remained that foreign recognition was denied to the Confederacy in all its attempts. Another reason the South well fell pitiful of a victory was the obvious difference in population between the South and the North. The North at the time had twenty-two million men patch the South had a meager nine-and-a-half million, of whom three-and-a-half million were slaves. While the slaves could be used to support the war effort through work on the plantations, in industries and as teamsters and pioneers with the army, they were not used as a combat arm in the war to any extent. This cuts the Souths manpower by a third, leaving a fifteen-and-a-half million difference in the population of the two areas. Give the South fifteen-and-a-half million more possible soldiers, and the outcome would hav e been different. The right military strategy is the bring up to a war. In order for the South to win the war, they would have needed to apply what is now called a blitzkrieg strategy. This would have been a quick fatal attack on the North to follow up its early victories of Manassas in the East and at Wilsons Creek and Lexington in the West.