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"If Cleburne's plan to intergrate blacks into the Rebel ranks in large numbers had been accepted when it was made instead of a year later, too late to matter, the CSA probably would have won. "

Come on folks, it was northern industry that ultimately defeated the confederacy, not troop numbers.

Not that black troops wouldn't have prolonged the war though.

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No way ever to know, of course, but USA had a jillion times more industry than VietNam. Will to keep fighting is the key. Hard to say how close the North was to giving up, but Lincoln thought for a while that he wouldn't be reelected in1864.