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The seeds of the CSA's destruction can be found in its own Constitution.

Put the US Constitution and the CSA Constitution side by side. You say sovereignty is a bad theory?

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"Put the US Constitution and the CSA Constitution side by side. You say sovereignty is a bad theory?"

Not at all. My point is the fixation on States Rights, while great most of the time, resulted in shortages for Lee's army, not to mention the CSA armies of the west and deep south. My example concerning the fact that Georgia had over 50K complete sets of uniforms at the time of Lee's surrender is a great example of this. Georgia's leaders refused to make the uniforms available, citing in effect "states rights".

Collective defense, when faces with the extermination of the CSA as a political entity, in hindsight admittedly, contributed to the end of the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring of 1865. Would the war have ended differently? I doubt it. But it wouldn't have ended in April of that year, in my honest opinion.

It was never about courage, or valor, or tactics in the last two years. It was as it always has been, about logistics. The political viewpoint held by the hardcore States Rights crowd seriously impeded the logistical needs of the Army of Northern Virginia in the end.