Here’s a Civil War thread/really long single note for d.w. before i go to sleep because i want to write something and might as well write this.

Thinkin’ bout logistics, bureaucracy, and industrial capacity.

I know the most about the conditions in the south/virginia because thats what has interested me, so i am aware ive got some gaps in knowledge and am open to correction where applicable.

The moment the civil war began, the Union and the CSA had vastly different starting conditions.

CSA had a motivated populace--more-so i think than the Union, but this is speculation on my part. The Union were trying to solve a political problem, and arguing rationally, making compromises, and all of a sudden their little brother storms out of the room. The Union, in other words, were not the aggrieved party. The CSA had various chips on their shoulder, and felt it was less a political problem and more a cultural one. This is why there was no agreement in the decades leading up to the outbreak of war, and this is why the general populace of the CSA were very highly motivated at the outset of hostilities.

(Please note--i am not remarking on the rightness or wrongness of attitudes and decisions, just describing what the starting conditions were.)

This is a long note so yeah ill turn this into a thread.

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