Based on After Secession and other sources, why did the Confederacy really fail???

Nov 5-8: Confederacy

You are a leader in the Civil War (political or military). What's more important, maintaining the racial status quo or gaining an advantage thru the use of black troops???

If the food shortage was so bad in the confederacy then why didn't more people try to correct the problem by rebelling against their ineffective government. Surely that many starving people couldn't all blame the Union for their lack of food enough to be content and let the war continue. I know history shows that they do but I personally don't think I could stand by and let my children starve. Maybe that is why I didn't find the fact that a mob of woman and some men and boys breaking into stores and stealing what they needed/ wanted to survive all that shocking.
The other thing that amazes me is the reluctance of the military to use Black soldiers considering they felt they were inferior. I would think that they wouyld use them in seige type conflicts so that they could have the "inferior" soldiers charge from the front and exhaust the opposition while the other soldiers came around from behind thus minimizing the number of "worthy" or "superior" soldiers that were uninjured. (Sounds racist but it is just my understanding of their thinking) Maybe I just don't get their logic at all.

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Oct 22-25: Gettysburg

Fascinating Facts about the Civil War

At Andersonville Prison, disease, malnutrition and abuse claimed many lives. An average of 127 men died each day, meaning that bodies were buried at the rate of one every eleven minutes. This death rate was higher than that of most battles.

Civil War weapons were so inaccurate that it is estimated that for every soldier shot, they needed 240 pounds of gunpowder and 900 pounds of lead.

Galusha Pennypacker was the youngest General of the Civil War. He was only 17 years old in 1861.

Paul Revere's grandson, Colonel Paul Revere was killed during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Seventeen of the fifty-one Confederate generals who fought at Gettysburg were killed in battle.

The Civil War lasted for 1,396 day, from 1861 until 1865. Approximately 623,000 soldiers died in about 10,455 military “events”.

The fighting in Spotsylvania was so intense that a white oak tree, almost two feet in diameter was cut down by bullets.

There was another Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War who was on the opposite side. Private Abraham Lincoln was a Confederate deserter from Virginia.

When he fell from a platform at a train station, Robert Lincoln was saved by famous actor Edwin Booth, brother of the man who would assassinate his father just a few months later.