The Confederacy: Could They Have Won?
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What was the Confederacy's initial plan and prediction about the war?
Grüße, Leute, es ist Don Wildman hier, euer Host für ein weiteres Video von American History Hit. Willkommen. Heute ist ein Teil unserer Deep Dive-Serie über die Natur und die Praxis der Konföderation. Die 11 Staaten, die von der Union über den Winter und den Frühjahr 1860-1861 verabschiedeten, die in den Krieg bis 1865 engagierten. Südkarolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Nordkarolina und Tennessee in dieser chronologischen Ordnung. Ich liste sie, um zu sagen, was für eine massive Geografie von 750.000 Quadratmetern wir betrachten. Was die Frage ist, wie würden sie diese Krieg kämpfen? Was war die Strategie? Gegen so einen hervorragenden Feu wie die Vereinigten Staaten, deren Bevölkerung die Süd-Mortem 3 zu 1 übernommen hat. Keine Ahnung, ihre offenen Vorteile in Equipment und Supplies. Cecily Zander kommt heute mit mir, wie sie es in der Vergangenheit herzlich gemacht hat. Cecily war mein Gast für Episode 162, Ulysses S. Grant und der Zivilen Krieg.
She is author of Abraham Lincoln and the American West, a manuscript in progress. Also The Army Under Fire, Anti-Militarism in the Civil War Era from 2024. Welcome Cicely Zander back to American History. Thanks for coming. Danke, Don. Danke, dass du mich kennengelernt hast.
Who were the key military leaders of the Confederacy?
So I think they thought they might be allowed to go in peace if they did it carefully. But they also did immediately start seizing United States military installations, federal arsenals, weapons, and they started enlisting an army pretty quickly. So I think they had in the back of their minds, a war was not a distant possibility, though they probably held out hope it wouldn't happen. But if it did, and both sides were guilty of this, they thought it would be a fairly quick war. So much of the organization of the Confederacy, its constitution, it was all a mirror image of the United States. And I suppose that went for the military as well. The United States to this point was very suspicious of its own standing armies. You know, it didn't believe in that idea. Was the same true of the Confederacy?
Yeah, and the Confederacy has the problem they don't have a pre-existing professional army to draw on. They do have about 300 officers who had formerly been regular United States soldiers, so officers in the United States Army who resign their commissions and take up positions in the Confederate Army, but it's an entirely volunteer force. And it's going to be enlisted on a state-by-state basis. So you're going to get regiments like the 15th Mississippi and the 4th Virginia and so on. And so, just like the US Army will be ultimately 95% volunteer, these are volunteer soldiers. They're not professionals by any means. They may have some experience with
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What was the Confederacy's initial plan and prediction about the war?
1:58–3:30
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Who were the key military leaders of the Confederacy?
3:30–5:05
3
How did the Confederacy organize its military forces?
5:05–8:06
4
What role did Jefferson Davis play in the Confederate military strategy?
8:06–11:54
5
What were the strategic challenges faced by the Confederacy?
11:54–15:41
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How did slavery impact the Confederacy's war efforts?
15:41–20:27
7
What was the significance of Virginia to the Confederate cause?
20:27–25:00
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Did propaganda play a role in the Confederate strategy?
25:00–35:11