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re: Civil War ended 150 years ago today
Posted on 4/9/15 at 5:05 pm to Burhead
Posted on 4/9/15 at 5:05 pm to Burhead
quote:The Confederate military leaders could never gotten their heads around a guerrilla movement. It would have been dishonorable to their way of thinking and slavery would have been exterminated by the occupying Federal forces. You can't have a guerrilla underground slavery-based agrarian society or economy.
How would things have played out if Lee had not surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox and instead melted away (with the rest of Confederate forces still on the field) and commenced with an insurgency campaign against Union forces? How long could they have sustained such a movement and what, if any, goals could they have realistically achieved?
This post was edited on 4/9/15 at 5:06 pm
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Posted on 4/9/15 at 5:18 pm to soccerfüt
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The Confederate military leaders could never gotten their heads around a guerrilla movement. It would have been dishonorable to their way of thinking and slavery would have been exterminated by the occupying Federal forces. You can't have a guerrilla underground slavery-based agrarian society or economy.
This. Although they always had 'skirmishes' guerilla warfare was just not as accepted as a 'formal' manner to wage war. Plus the Leaders at this point wanted to avoid the noose.
Plus you would have needed popular support for it to be a successful strategy & by then most Southerners were probably war weary.
Add to that the demographics of the deep South (mostly Black ) plus Union troops would prove an uphill battle .
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