[wintertime]

I wonder if the South would have won the Civil War if they had solely used guerrilla warfare tactics?

[JRandomFreeper]

I doubt the south could have won the war, but I don't think the north could have either, had the south stayed with hit and run tactics.

That was a big logistics war more than anything.

/johnny

[robowombat]

I wonder if the South would have won the Civil War if they had solely used guerrilla warfare tactics?
Different topic but an interesting one. The Feds were definitely worried that CSA military leaders would just surrender the lame and halt and sick and tell their younger subordinate commanders to take as many people as wanted to go and scatter to the winds to continue the struggle. E. P. Alexander , a very competent officer, explicitly presented that option to Lee on the eve of Appomattox. Certainly the Afrikaners pretty much ran out the clock playing that option with the British in the South African War of 1899-1902. Davis didn't have the grasp or vision to use a sort of modified Maoist strategy which is just what Juarez did in Mexico. Representative regimes will eventually grow tired of interminable conflicts with a tactically resilient foe.