I kind of love when one of them is like “well actually the south were tactical geniuses, they just lost because they couldn’t produce enough weapons and uniforms”. Bro, a tactical genius doesn’t start a war with an economic powerhouse. Ability to produce supplies and get them to the front lines literally the biggest factor of war.
not to mention all their tactical victories were against an actively self-sabotaging traitor McClellan
And I’m sure it wouldn’t come as any surprise that even the tactical acumen of senior Confederate commanders has been overstated, to say the least
Tacumen.
Yeah, it’s absolutely wild how much the south was allowed to write its own history
They got cocky because their railroads gave them internal supply lines, which made them able to defend more land per unit. But it doesn’t matter how much you can ferry resources within your territory if you can’t maintain the external supply. The north basically had to just continue the fight until the south ran out of resources
