Hyperion wrote:
And that's why the south lost the warstubborn fools.
Actually, in many ways the South used much more dynamic and innovative tactics than the North, and are usually credited by having far superior officers and soldiers (on a man to man basis). They were mainly hampered by a lack of foreign recognition, the inability to break the Northern blockade, and being vastly outnumbered in both men and supplies.
For instance the South were the first to successfully use a combat submarine, the first to deploy an iron clad warship, one of the first to use anti personal land mines, and went toe to toe with a vastly numerically superior force for four years (and were largely successful for most of it).
Stubborn? Yes. Wrong? Yes. Fools? Certainly not.
