[Non-Sequitur]

I guess making steam engines and rolling forges don't count prior to the Northern Empire's Invasion.

Didn't I say something about there not being much of a Southern industrial base outside of Virginia? I seem to recall making that statement, but even with Virginia the confederacy's industrial strength was a fraction of that of the North. In spite of all that industrial machinery you were supposed to be importing. I wonder why that was?

[rockrr]

Perhaps they were taking in all that machinery so that they could melt it down into chains?