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- Apr 4, 2017
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The point being, that the few Confederate ironclads that were finished, had almost no affect on US water born logistics. The owned and chartered fleets grew at a geometric rate. They defended a few hard points in the Confederacy, but they were noticeably absent during the US joint operation to capture Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The resources were not spent to organize and support a successful invasion of the north, which was probably the only way the Confederacy could win the war. The ironclads were part of the strategy of outlasting the US. History has granted that strategy an undeserved credibility. Part of my response is that any Confederacy that would have somehow survived the US, would have had a very limited prospect of recovery. Since the US industrial base was untouched, a second war was inevitable. As momentum towards the abolition of slavery gathered in the US, the prospects of any foreign assistance for the fledgling Confederacy would have declined.