Central_va: “ The whole Southern strategy was to make the North want to sue for peace becasue the cost was to high to keep the South in the Union.
There is nothing to dispute here about that, it is well documented that the South had no designs on conquering the North. “
Of course, as we’ve noted before, that depends on your definition of “North”.
In fact Confederates claimed three Union states and three territories as their own.
In the beginning Confederates had designs on two more Union states, and in the end sent military forces into 14 of 30 remaining Union states & territories.
So, obviously, when Central_va says “no designs on conquering the North” we are not to take him literally.
You are an absolute idiot to think the South wanted to or even could conquer the North. What an embarrassment you are. Turn in your historian card. At one time I thought you had a brain but really you know nothing.
I am not even sure I can find anyone at that time that even remotely thought that that Northern conquest was a possibility.
The war was first sold in the North as keeping the Union together then it was repackaged as a war to end slavery. Never was the war sold as "we in North are going to be conquered by the South". That is simply preposterous.
Find one newspaper article from the time period that even insinuates that. Find one letter.
The war was going to have on of three possible outcomes from the start AND EVERYONE KNEW IT.
Notice I didn't say "North defeated and occupied" because that was NEVER going to happen. NOBODY in the entire USA at the time thought that a real possibility. It's absurd.