Brother Wind
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I mean it was a foolish dream. The American Navy doesn't get enough credit until WW2, so even if they got help from Europe, the North wasn't allowing it through anyway. But really the Confederacy was operating on winning a war in best case scenarios. And lucked out into generals that knew how to plan for the worst. Where the Union was just in the base case, and kept getting generals that wanted better.He was very unambiguous that no matter his personal opinion, his loyalty to the Union itself was what was paramount and he would have adopted any policy regarding slavery that preserved it. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."
Cotton was one of our biggest cash crops at the time (the other being tobacco). Part of why the South believed they could win was that they believed they could exploit their economic resources to get funded by England and France. The disruption in the cotton trade actually caused serious global impacts. The South was essentially doomed when the North was able successfully to blockade the cotton trade and deter the European powers from entering on the side of the South.