Thank you for providing yet another example of how Southern shipbuilders, who had long specialized in building shallow draft river craft to take goods North up inland waterways, could have switched to building blue water craft there were a demand. It had always been easier to let Northern shipyards, which by 1860 which far more developed for that purpose, do it. Thus leaving more money to buy more slaves. Also dispelling the crazy idea that secession did not happen to protect the institution of slavery and the entire Southern economy which was built on it.
Yeah, I think there was that little matter of a war going on to spur this development. They had their very own closed system and economic demand for that production. Would that have occurred with the Northern system still controlling shipbuilding and shipping? Probably not.
If you think Southerners volunteered to fight to protect slavery then that is an insult to my ancestors. Quit re writing history it's dangerous and foolish, it's what the left does.
After two years of crushing defeats the abolitionists took over the northern cause and re packaged it into a war to free the black man to get the Goon re- elected.. Hence the need for the conscription act. Nobody wanted to die to either keep the black man enslaved or to free them.
Go to the DU, they'd love you.