re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

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Lee for one disdained staff work which is why his army was usually half starved.

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I can't agree with any of that, Walt, No sir, I cannot.

Neither side fielded really effective military staffs. The reason has more to do with the fact that we had not fully developed our Warfighting systems, components and mechanisms back then. There was no Chief of Staff supervising a Chief of Operations, a Chief of Logistics and a Chief of Intelligence back then like we had later on and we have today.

Lee had no ability to go to his G-4 and say, "Hey, Loggie, my rations distribution chain is all fricked up. We're out of Schlitz. Fix this shite now."