If you really think Lee and Jefferson sat around contemplating how to conquer the North then you are really mis informed about history. Go back to square one.
That’s it? That was their grand strategy? Be as much of a pain in the ass as possible so that the north would tell them to go away?!
I knew that they were foolish to start something that they had little hope of winning but I didn’t think they were that stupid!
Central_va: “ The whole Southern strategy was to make the North want to sue for peace becasue the cost was to high to keep the South in the Union.
There is nothing to dispute here about that, it is well documented that the South had no designs on conquering the North. “
Of course, as we’ve noted before, that depends on your definition of “North”.
In fact Confederates claimed three Union states and three territories as their own.
In the beginning Confederates had designs on two more Union states, and in the end sent military forces into 14 of 30 remaining Union states & territories.
So, obviously, when Central_va says “no designs on conquering the North” we are not to take him literally.