- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
1. When Vicksburg and Port Hudson were under United States control, the Confederacy no longer was geographically contiguous. The risk of foreign intervention disappeared. Lincoln could cut off the purchases of cotton from Confederate territory. Britain was not going to intervene no matter what happened to the cotton mills. Some cotton could be shipped from areas under United States control.
2. Of the approximately 15,000,000 beef cattle in the United States in 1860, about 2.7 million were in Texas.
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/agriculture/1860b-09.pdf
Without Texas, without Tennessee, without trade with the Midwest, the prospect of starvation loomed over the entire Confederacy.
2. Of the approximately 15,000,000 beef cattle in the United States in 1860, about 2.7 million were in Texas.
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/agriculture/1860b-09.pdf
Without Texas, without Tennessee, without trade with the Midwest, the prospect of starvation loomed over the entire Confederacy.