- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Near Kankakee
Agreed. The Confederacy did not have the manpower to hold the territory. (Nor the generalship.) If the war was to be won, it had to be with Lee smashing the AotP.The Eastern Theater was the most important theater of the war. It was where the confederates could win the war.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the systematic destruction of supply to the AoNV was constricting Lee's supply lines. He could not win in his theater without those supplies. The Anaconda Plan, although not official policy, inevitably starved Lee into submission by attrition.