No, they wouldn’t have won. The North had the technology, factories and supply lines and the South had something that the North wanted.
Imho, the Civil War was more about money than anything else. Ending slavery was used as the “cause” and is a great outcome, but ultimately, like every war, it was about power and money.
Imho, the Civil War was more about money than anything else. Ending slavery was used as the “cause” and is a great outcome, but ultimately, like every war, it was about power and money.
EXACTLY!
There was a territory in the Appalachians that seceded from the Confederacy shortly after the Confederacy was formed. The area was primarily poor subsistence farmers and miners. The new nation, called Mayland, did not allow slavery.
The Confederacy pretty much left Mayland alone, but the Union ravaged the territory, burning out farms and enslaving the men. The old timers used to take us into the hills to show us the caves and hollers where people hid from the Union soldiers and defended their women-folk from the marauders. The books tell of gang-rapes and of hangings of women and children from the Union soldiers.
Slavery was legal in the Union, and not in Mayland.