re: The Will of a Southerner to a roaring Confederacy victory - The Battle of Chancellorsville

Let it go.

Yes, our men won that particular battle, but because the greatest calvary officer that ever walked the face of the earth, Stonewall Jackson, was wounded accidentally by his own men in that very battle, and later died, the war was lost. It's my opinion that if Lee had listened to Jackson and went straight for DC in the aftermath of First Manassus, the Feds would have given up, as the war was very unpopular in most localities in Yankee land and there would have been too much pressure on Lincoln to call it a day and seek an armistice of some sort. As the war dragged on it became a war of attrition and no way our brave and heroic men in gray were going to win that type of war. I was in Dijon France one time, and I had a French army officer there tell me that he thought Stonewall Jackson was the greatest battlefield commander in the history of the world, and I don't disagree. When he was removed from the picture it pretty much sealed the fate of the Confederacy.

Ole boy a traitor to the USA...

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the average Southerner wasn’t unaware of the United States being one country.

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The average person was loyal to their State or territory, not over the USA. It's a fairly well known concept and if you ever decide to pursue your education beyond 12th, you'll learn about it.

The civil war itself actually changed the union of states into a larger, more powerful central government.

It isn't quite that simple. Grant had regrets for that day. It wasn't so much the lack of technology as it was the fact that tactics had not caught up to the technology of the day. They fought with 1860's tech with early 1800's tactics

Weapons were more accurate and could be fired at longer ranges than in Napoleon's day.You started seeing some breechloaders and even repeating rifles(Spencers) Artillery was more accurate longer ranged and with canister at close range took a horrible toll. And yet, many of the tactics employed were much as if Napoleon were calling the shots,massed frontal attacks in tight formations into entrenched positions, etc.(Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg, Pickett's Charge.)

It was practically murder.

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Grant threw three corps in a frontal assault against entrenched Rebel troops and lost 7000 in 30 minutes.

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This myth needs to die. I'm pretty sure it was popularized by Shelby Foote and then again by Ken Burns, but the Union army did not lose 7,000 men in 30 minutes. They lost 6,500 men total for the whole day of fighting. Also...it wasn't Grant's plan - it was Meade's. As soon as he realized it wasn't going to work, Grant was the one who called it off.

You should read the northern states' constitutions where slavery was clearly outlawed 50 years before the war, and stop reading whatever op-ed drivel is printed as history these days.

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Greatest Victory ever

You forget one important detail, which is that Lincoln's reason for pursuing the war was because when the South ceceded they took about 80% of the Fed's tax base, which was the tarref on cotton exports to Europe (mostly Great Britian) and import taxes on finished goods (again, mostly Great Britian) that were taken by the cotton planters as payment for their raw product. One of Lincoln's first responses to the news that the South had seceded was "where is my tarriff! I must have my tariff!" It is true that one of the primary reasons the southern states ceceded was bause they feared Lincoln was going to make slavery illigal. Very short sited on the part of the planters I think, because Cyrus McCormick was doing wonders at his iron works outside of Fairfield, Virginia inventing tilling implements and seed layers that would, not very long after the war, begin producing farm implements that drastically reduce the need for slave labor. Also, sitting on his lazy arse over in England was one of Lincoln's most staunch admirers, the exiled German malcontent, Karl Marx. Rather interesting I'd say. To a large extent, one's admirers are admirers because they like who they think you are. It's obvious that Marx saw great potentian in utilizing Lincoln in his quest to bring about world wide communism. Was Marx correct in his assessment? I'm not sure, but it's a subject for someone to look into in a more than casual manner.