Yeah. Pretry sure the guys who wanted slavery were worse
The Union was crap for a lot of reasons. They set the bar way down low. Drafting migrants and press-ganging sailors, kitting soldiers out with crap so war profiteers could rake it in, losing battle after battle through mismanagement and cowardice, generally fucking up the first two years so hard that Gettysburg Pennsylvania was a battlefield people were dying on.
But by god did the Confederacy manage to limbo under. Virtually every sin the Union committed was echoed by the Confederates several times over. And on top of it all… you know… slavery.
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.
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
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
not to mention all their tactical victories were against an actively self-sabotaging traitor McClellan
the only way the union didn’t fail was when they didn’t stamp the confederacy repeatedly in the face, forever
reconstruction shouldve lasted one hundred years
