You are the Army

[ole]

Larry:
That's much like what Sam was saying: Lee knew while marching into Pennsylvania that success would be a stroke of luck, but that it would be his last throw of the dice. When the numbers didn't come up as he would have liked, he must have known that the chances for an independent Confederacy were slim if not nonexistent.

Why didn't he save what was left of Southern wealth and quit? "Quit" wasn't in the Dixionary.
Ole

[samgrant]

From Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman:

(to his son) " Well, Mr. Custis, I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. I told them the condition we were in, and that something should be done at once, but I can't get them to do anything, or they are unable to do anything. Mr. Custis, when this war began I was opposed to it, bitterly opposed to it, and I told these people that unless every man should do his whole duty, they would repent it, and now they will repent."

!!!!!

[larry_cockerham]

May the lightnin' avoid my head for saying this, but the Confederate government was a bit of a farce.

[r_moody]

Originally Posted by larry_cockerham

May the lightnin' avoid my head for saying this, but the Confederate government was a bit of a farce.

I completely agree. They didn't want a federal government but in reality they had no other choice. The government they created in replacement was ineffective and showed that a confederacy could not work.

[ole]

In correcting the US constitution, the Confederacy created a monster. Of course, fighting a war while trying to cope with the confusion didn't help.
Ole