Why north won and why south lost have intrigued historians to pinpoint on the exact reason for south losing the civil war. I blame Jefferson Davis head of the confederacy poor leadership and lack of getting along with his generals, the state’s rights prevented unification of the south, the south’s failure of recognition by England and France. North’s superior resources and the south’s poor morale by the wars end made the outcome inevitable. Firstly, unification of the south was prevented by the states right which helped to destroy the very confederacy it helped to create. Southern politics, government and economics, internal conflicts of liberty and organizing hindered mobilization of war efforts. Rather the southern people insisted on retaining
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Besides the south’s conflicts with state governments Jefferson Davis’s inability to work effectively with his generals caused the south to lose the civil war. When congress adopted a bill establishing the office of the general in chief for Lee, Davis vetoed it. Davis’s well known feuds with two of the confederacy’s generals Beauregard and Joseph Johnston without a doubt hurt the souths war efforts. Even more so Davis could not get along with other confederate leaders. Davis used excessive energy in contentions and even ……. Argument. Davis wanted to operate as the secretary of war and his own general in chief. Davis made terrible choices for the commanders and often selected men of personal preference than qualifications. Davis never admitted his wrong “seemed to prefer winning an argument if it would help win the war.” (….) The confederates lost due to faulty strategy and poor leadership and not due to its numbers. As David Patter once said “If the union and the confederacy had exchanged presidents with one another, the confederacy might have won …show more content…
The union had advantages in ample resources of just about everything the south did not have. With the north’s sheer manpower ratio were unbelievably one sided with north having an advantage of five to two not including the slaves or freedmen. The union had large lands available for growing food, hence served dual purpose of food for hungry soldiers and money for its ever growing industries, railroads, and telegraph links, a ……. Lifeline of any army, or any countries side but left the south isolated, outdated, and starving. The south developed a ……………. Straw in the form of economic colonialism. The confederates were too willing to sell for profit what little raw materials they had left to the north. “The north could have fought the war with one hand behind their back”.
Besides the south’s conflicts with state governments Jefferson Davis’s inability to work effectively with his generals caused the south to lose the civil war. When congress adopted a bill establishing the office of the general in chief for Lee, Davis vetoed it. Davis’s well known feuds with two of the confederacy’s generals Beauregard and Joseph Johnston without a doubt hurt the souths war efforts. Even more so Davis could not get along with other confederate leaders. Davis used excessive energy in contentions and even ……. Argument. Davis wanted to operate as the secretary of war and his own general in chief. Davis made terrible choices for the commanders and often selected men of personal preference than qualifications. Davis never admitted his wrong “seemed to prefer winning an argument if it would help win the war.” (….) The confederates lost due to faulty strategy and poor leadership and not due to its numbers. As David Patter once said “If the union and the confederacy had exchanged presidents with one another, the confederacy might have won …show more content…
The union had advantages in ample resources of just about everything the south did not have. With the north’s sheer manpower ratio were unbelievably one sided with north having an advantage of five to two not including the slaves or freedmen. The union had large lands available for growing food, hence served dual purpose of food for hungry soldiers and money for its ever growing industries, railroads, and telegraph links, a ……. Lifeline of any army, or any countries side but left the south isolated, outdated, and starving. The south developed a ……………. Straw in the form of economic colonialism. The confederates were too willing to sell for profit what little raw materials they had left to the north. “The north could have fought the war with one hand behind their back”.