‘Logistics won the day for the North.’
Only after Grant put all the Union armies in motion at once. Prior to that, with the exception of Gettysburg, the eastern theater was dominated by the incomparable Robert E Lee’s masterful defensive actions, and counter attacks.
Logistics was at the heart of why the South didn’t win its Independence. Their own ‘logistics’ were undermined by the extreme ‘states rights’ stance the South incorporated via their version of the Constitution. In short, that extreme viewpoint planted the seeds of the Confederates ultimate defeat.
did you know the state of Georgia had 50,000 complete uniform sets, with shoes, the day Lee surrendered his barefoot and rag clad magnificent warriors?
” Yes, that was something Grant recognized. My point was that the industry that drove that military machine was run on what we would now call “slavery”.’
Thats a rationalization that isn’t supported by any facts from the era, only modern liberalism doing what it always does, rationalize. Sorry, maybe a sweat shop, but not ‘slavery’ not even remotely close.
“Logistics was at the heart of why the South didn’t win its Independence. Their own ‘logistics’ were undermined by the extreme ‘states rights’ stance the South incorporated via their version of the Constitution. In short, that extreme viewpoint planted the seeds of the Confederates ultimate defeat.”
I guess they didn’t learn from the Revolution, either, wherein at least finally Washington stopped bowing to every equivocating suggestion from Congress.
And yet the Rev boys were MUCH worse off.