How did the South end up losing the war when they were kicking ass in the beginning?

How did the South end up losing the war when they were kicking ass in the beginning?

Also how would you imagine America would be if the South did win the Civil War?

They were only kicking ass on the East Coast under General Lee. Around the rest of the country, the South got their shit pushed in hard.

Fact is the South just didn't have the industrial capacity or the manpower to keep a sustained offense going. Their only chance at winning was at Gettysburg by hitting the Union on their turf instead, but look how that turned out.

General Pickett, where is your division!?

South was winning until the North go its shit together, which directly translates to "instituted the draft".

Dummy Southern general, can't recall if it was Lee, but the one that stopped short of going into Washington DC after winning Bull Run. Could have ended the war there.

North had logistics and manpower on their side. South had better generals and tactics, but they couldn't win the war of attrition.

Basically, technology won in the end, like it does with most wars.

Because their industry couldn't compete with the one of the north and they lacked of the manpower the union had.

Also keep in mind that with the war going on the union modernized its army (Henry rifles, Train transport, Gatlin guns,...) while the south had the same equipment the entire war.

Shitty and poor.
Sherman did us a favor by burning them down.

A big part was the Union locking down the coast, suspending trade from overseas.

Another factor was that the Confederates were hopelessly outnumbered and out-merchandised. The north produced roughly 97% of all firearms, had 22 million people vs the South's 9 million. Now that's not to say the Confederacy was inherently a lost cause. They had poor political and military strategy. Tons of missed opportunity. Davis had many opportunities to strengthen the political might of the South, but ultimately failed. The military leadership by Lee, however, was narrow minded and doomed to fail, in most historians eyes.

>stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire about halfway through the war, prior to Gettysburg
>Gettysburg was lost, killing the South's momentum
>the South never really had a good defense going on in the western part of the confederacy
>Lincoln won reelection in 1864, his opponent wanted to end the war

Because Robert E. Lee lead an offensive campaign in enemy territory late into the game

Robert E. Lee is totally overrated, and the Gettysburg pretty much sealed the deal for the South

You'd think if you were an inferior force, you might want to stay out of your superior enemy's territory and make them come to you, but not Lee, he went and attacked them head on, and lost!

It was a long shot gamble that would have won the war for the south if things had lined up. It was the South's version of the Tet Offensive, if the Tet Offensive hadn't had the media impact it did.

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The north wasn't really superior since it was barely united and lacked of foreign allies.

If the North would have taken more nothern land more quickly and would have formed an alliance with an european force it could have verry well have won the war quickly.

>*If the SOUTh would have taken more
My bad

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except an alliance with a european force would have been nearly impossible considering the Union navy blockaded all Southern ports

The union navy was a joke compared to what the british or the french had tho

The Civil War never ended, it simply cooled off. The South let The North parade their "victory" in for face for decades via (((MSM))) and (((Hollywood))). They do to The South the opposite of what (((they))) do with the Holocaust: forever try to lower our morale, portray as inferior yokels, and project their spiritually-bankrupt, corrupt lifestyle as superior and dominant.

You'll see NYC fall in your lifetime. The (((rats))) have eaten it out from the inside, and The South has kept quiet, steadily stocking up on firearms, teaching our young how to shoot, how to survive off the land, how to stay fit, teaching them that The North actually belongs to us, because we believe in the Almighty, Yankees made a deal with the Devil.

All the while, we stand behind, a tight grin of horror, as the Yankees' boys allow them to become girls, and the girls boys, drunk on decades under the rule of Jews, who worship a matriarchal system, because it spits in God's face. Yankees freely give up their guns, and protest their own divine right to protect themselves; Yankee whites actually hate themselves, useless idiots with weak wrists covered by fancy clothes and faggot perfume, the Devil's bait.

And we take hands at the dinner table as Yankees brazenly attempt to push their own void practices on us, The South, push degeneracy on our children, confuse them in public schools, try to change their bathrooms. We bite our tongue, we clean our guns, we look to our family dogs named after Confederate generals.

Anyone who thinks these gay-loving, Jew-controlled, gun-less, materialistic Yankees will challenge The South when we run over their hills, shut inside their skyscrapers, take our money from (((their banks))), sure m8 lol. Chuck Schumer will be on a private jet to Israel, counting emergency shekels, as the Rebel Flag and Gaston Flag wave at the top of the Statue of Liberty and World Trade Center One.

Longstreet, is that you??

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I wonder If my great great great grandpappy killed your great great great grandpappy?

Wars aren't won by tactical superiority. They are won by resource management and strategic decisions. The South had better generals and competence overall, but they lacked the resources to win the war without a Hail Mary. They also made a handful of unwise big strategic decisions.

>burn down a country
>destroy all of its infrastructure
>when you are fighting to bring it back into the union

This is why you idiots bitch about the South that YOU created.

Why do people draw an alternative timeline where South won as CSA being a racist redneck state? Would it be that different from what we have now?

Niggers run Atlanta

This will never happen.

>t. an actual southerner

Is this a movie reference? Would really like a good war movie right now.

Sherman's March to the Sea.

Sherman basically went and salted the earth in the southern shithole states.

>Also how would you imagine America would be if the South did win the Civil War?
Europe. The fight was over rothshield's bank.

Most of the factories were in the north, north had a larger pool of people to draw from. Basically we zerg rushed the south.

Kys shill.

>t. Carolina fag, locked and loaded

CSA would be more of an empire. They had plans to take over a lot of South America.