Captured Union Locomotives

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That would certainly be one of the myriad aspect of the problem that faced the Confederacy. The lack of almost all the basic elements of a modern(mid-nineteenth Century) nation-state. One can, IMO, pick out almost any resource lacking and almost write a book on how it adversely affected the South's ability to win its war for independence.

Southerners performed prodigies of improvisation, but, as noted, it can only last for a short time and points out, that the confederacy was never able to make good on their basic lack of most of the resources required to win a war of Materiale', i.e., essentially, whatever they lacked at the beginning of the War, they lacked at the end of the war.

True. I think many folks when discussing military issues don't acknowledge that warfare isn't just about soldiers , weapons and generals but about a military industrial complex that also includes transportation and agriculture.
Quite right in that winning a war means a lot of factors have to come together.
Lack of a skilled work force supplemented by immigration was the Confederacies Achilles tendon.
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