Inability to Wage Offensive Warfare

[whitworth]

If we study the Confederate Gettysburg campaign, in all its weaknesses, we should come to the conclusion that the Confederate government was never able to support offensive warfare, or a war that could win and defeat the armies of the United States.
If we study all the supply shortages of the Army of Northern Virginia on their trek into Pennsylvania, might we properly ask why the Confederate leadership, asked so much of its people ,for so much of a longshot chance at victory.

Once the United States was, by its actions, committed to a long war by 1863, can we question why the Jefferson Davis' and the Confederate leadership, thought continued warfare could win independence for the South.

[ole]

Once the United States was, by its actions, committed to a long war by 1863, can we question why the Jefferson Davis' and the Confederate leadership, thought continued warfare could win independence for the South.

I suspect that, by then, it was too late to honorably quit. Would have made sense, but very little about the late unpleasantness made any sense.
Ole