How did the North take so long to defeat the South, when the latter was only a quarter of its size and had a much smaller population to draw manpower from? Did they just fear the Confederate warrior?
How did the North take so long to defeat the South...
Jordan Cox
Charles Hall
i know they were more experienced because of the last war with mexico but my knowledge stops there
Jack Cooper
They underestimated the southerners
They literally thought they could quell the rebellion in an afternoon
Congressmen brought their families for a picnic at the first battle
Hunter Martinez
Focused on defense at first.
Parker Murphy
and this
Lucas Garcia
Literally no
Jacob Richardson
They underestimated our resolve and overestimated their own.
Union morale could have completely collapsed if it wasn't for the Confederate reversals at Antietam and Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation (which renewed abolitionist support for the war).
Christian Hernandez
>quarter of it's size
Look at a map nigger
You don't go from a tiny volunteer army to one able to occupy a massive amount of territory in short order
Ian Thomas
>our
Ahaha. Dumb faggot.
Adam Taylor
The only shock is that we didn't whip those Yanks for good in 62.
Wyatt Williams
Justin Bennett
>I think that the North fought that war with one hand behind it's back. At the same time the war was going on, the Homestead Act was being passed, all these marvelous inventions were going on. In the spring of '64 the Havard-Yale boat races were going on and not a man in either crew ever volunteered for the Army or the Navy, they didn't need them. I think if it had been more Southern successes, and a lot more, I think the North simply would have brought that other hand from behind it's back. I don't the South ever had a chance to win that war.
Henry Barnes
Daily reminder that even southerners are Yankees now
Brandon Hill
This. Many yanks didn't even want a war and would've preferred to have just let the south secede and call it a day. This sentiment would've gotten stronger if the Confederate push into the north was actually successful. People would've demanded for Lincoln to accept a peace offer or would've voted him out of office in favor of McClellan. The Confederate loss at Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation was enough victories to keep the north fighting.
Jackson Anderson
If the Northern public had lost the will to fight, it wouldn’t have mattered whether they had two hands or three.
Easton Butler
They feared the dixiemans tactics and artillery of destruction.
Joseph Fisher
based uncle shelby
Elijah Hughes
McClellan was basically the turtleing noob of IRL RTS
Grayson Watson
>Implying Amerimutts have the endurance to move their flabby bodies more than a half-mile a day
Christopher Roberts
>when the latter was only a quarter of its size and had a much smaller population to draw manpower from
The Confederacy had a much more extensive system for conscription than the North, which included passing the first conscription law in U.S. history. While only a relatively small fraction of the male population in the North served, a much larger portion of males in the south were directly involved with the Confederate army at some point.
Some quick links that may provide insight:
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
civil-war.net
civilwar.org
Confederacy:
1,082,119 total who served
Population - about 9 million
Union:
2,128,948 total who served
Population - about 22 million
Gavin Wright
McClellan being anything less than an excellent general is a meme.
Above all else because they knew the terrain. There's also fact most of the Regular Army's best and brightest officers all took a commission with the Confederacy. Rebel armies also scarcely had to trouble themselves with running short on supplies, as they had the support of the local populous and could count on their help.
>eheh they underestimated our SPIRIT
Nobody fights a war with "resolve," dumbass. And don't make as if Antietam and Gettysburg were the Union Army's only major victories. Those two battles only stand out in terms of body count and the fact they were fought on Lee's grand odyssey up north.
This.
Tyler Stewart
technological limitations and the fact that most of the south is a humid place means that its gonna take a while to move across the place
Oliver Martin
>Nobody fights a war with "resolve," dumbass.
John Perry
>pulling out the bottom of the barrel two years into a war
and we are supposed to play into their fantasies that they would of won the war because?
Sebastian Nelson
>Nobody fights a war with "resolve," dumbass.
Explain a handful of desert niggers who didn't knew how to read and write conquered the 2 largest and most powerfull empires of their time in a couple of decades
Oliver Cooper
The North didn't have a large professional army at the beginning of the war, so one had to be enlisted and trained. That took time. Neither did the South, but they had better generals at the start of the war.
The South was also fighting a defensive war on home territory. Their armies had to be destroyed, not just beaten and forced to retreat or sign an armistice. The war was also highly supported by the Southern civilian population.
>Did they just fear the Confederate warrior?
McClellan did lol
And it's actually a big reason why the war took longer. Hell, the main bulk of the war didn't get started until Spring of 1862, partly because of McClellan.