Winner loses while loser wins

[whitworth]

It took the United States some two years for the logistical buildup necessary to defeat the Confederacy in its major states of Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. By late 1864, no Confederate general was going to save the Confederacy.

The Confederacy was overwhelmed by finance, expenditures, logistics and endurance.

If anyone saw the future it was not the Confederate founding fathers. They never saw the vast need for foundries and factories and investment.

The North made enough replacement railroad rails for all its northern supply routes and the rails needed to supply its army in the southern states. Southern states made too few rails to supply its ironclad ship requirements or its needed railroad rail replacement supply. The South started with too little industrial potential and the U.S. bled, what it had, to death over the four year old war.

By 1863, the U.S. was committed not to give up the land mass held by the Confederacy. By extending the war into 1863, the Confederacy guaranteed that the great wealth of the South would be largely lost, and slaveholders would lose their slaves with no compensation.