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- Aug 25, 2012
I just returned from the Jackson Michigan CWRT where Jame F. Epperson presented the lecture The Winter of Southern Discontent which was about the Hampton Roads Conference. Much of his talk was based on Our One Common Country by James B. Conroy. Because I have not read Conroy's book I was at a disadvantage. Still the lecture did give me thoughts of a few questions.
It appears that Blair believed that the two sides could lay down their arms and join forces against the French in Mexico. This might put the Civil War on hold for a time, but how would it have ended the Civil War? At the end of fighting Mexico the Union would see fit to allow the Confederate states to form their own country? Would the Confederate states after the end of fighting in Mexico have decided to reenter the Union? Neither seem particularly probable. So I really can not see the point of the two sides joining forces to fight the French. Perhaps I am missing the point here.
I thought that by the winter of 1864 that both sides were tiring of the death and wounds. So we add a fee more deaths in Mexico and then resume the Civil War in the United States and add to the death toll? This seems like bizarre logic to me. A couple of years delay before the resumption of the Civil War would have allowed the Confederacy to sell cotton, then buy arms, equipment, and ships. This would make the Confederacy stronger military and make the war longer once it resumed after dealing with the French in Mexico. This would increase deaths on both sides.
It appears that Blair believed that the two sides could lay down their arms and join forces against the French in Mexico. This might put the Civil War on hold for a time, but how would it have ended the Civil War? At the end of fighting Mexico the Union would see fit to allow the Confederate states to form their own country? Would the Confederate states after the end of fighting in Mexico have decided to reenter the Union? Neither seem particularly probable. So I really can not see the point of the two sides joining forces to fight the French. Perhaps I am missing the point here.
I thought that by the winter of 1864 that both sides were tiring of the death and wounds. So we add a fee more deaths in Mexico and then resume the Civil War in the United States and add to the death toll? This seems like bizarre logic to me. A couple of years delay before the resumption of the Civil War would have allowed the Confederacy to sell cotton, then buy arms, equipment, and ships. This would make the Confederacy stronger military and make the war longer once it resumed after dealing with the French in Mexico. This would increase deaths on both sides.
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