[jeffc]

If prosperity was in the South and the North was bankrupt then the South would have won the war, no?

Why do you assume such a simplistic thing that the richest always wins?

The South only had farm implements and such, the North was an industrial powerhouse able to manufacture millions of weapons, and had ALOT more people (for soldiers) than the South.

[decimon]

...the North was an industrial powerhouse able to manufacture millions of weapons...

While bankrupt?

[barb-tex]

The south's wealth was in farm products. The cotton embargo
killed the confeds when they could have bought war materiel and the blockade buried it.
BTW How many slaves in he US did Ole Abe free with the EP. Try
zero. To add insult to injury, Slaves in the river Parishes in LA, who thought that Ole Massa Abe would free them after they had been captured by the Feds were sadly disappointed when they remained slaves till the end of the war. After all Boy, somebody has to pick dat cotton.
barbra ann