re: Civil War ended 150 years ago today

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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.

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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 .