- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
Both sides saw what was happening by the time of Shiloh and Antietam, and continued the war. Battle by battle, there was nothing extraordinary about these casualties. As far as combat casualties, once gunpowder weapons were involved, this is what they produce.
In terms of disease casualties, the risk posed to congregations of young men without vaccines had been part of the US/Mexican war and the Crimean War, though Florence Nightingale and sanitary reforms slowed the losses due to disease at least among the allies.
No one has an offered an explanation of why the war continued despite the enormous losses.
In the US, the administration and Congress both thought that blood letting signified hard fighting.
In the US, they failed to adhere to the economic and logistical design of completing the blockade and disabling the Confederate railroad system. When the US armies and the navy returned to that strategy, the war ended in 8 1/4 months. So human error has to be part of the explanation, which foreshadowed events in WWI.
On the Confederate side, after correctly aiming for a political victory in which the Democrats won the national election, the EP was repudiated and the USCT quit in mass, the failed to heed that it had failed. Everyone who died after Lincoln was re-elected died because the Confederate leadership was using the army to insulate themselves from accountability.
In terms of disease casualties, the risk posed to congregations of young men without vaccines had been part of the US/Mexican war and the Crimean War, though Florence Nightingale and sanitary reforms slowed the losses due to disease at least among the allies.
No one has an offered an explanation of why the war continued despite the enormous losses.
In the US, the administration and Congress both thought that blood letting signified hard fighting.
In the US, they failed to adhere to the economic and logistical design of completing the blockade and disabling the Confederate railroad system. When the US armies and the navy returned to that strategy, the war ended in 8 1/4 months. So human error has to be part of the explanation, which foreshadowed events in WWI.
On the Confederate side, after correctly aiming for a political victory in which the Democrats won the national election, the EP was repudiated and the USCT quit in mass, the failed to heed that it had failed. Everyone who died after Lincoln was re-elected died because the Confederate leadership was using the army to insulate themselves from accountability.