Besides the fact that the Federal government had an in-place military, and in-place military suppliers, while the Confederacy had to start from scratch, and the population difference which favored the North, there was also the economic disparity. The last economic figures before the American Civil War showed that the Southern states had 18,026 “industrial establishments” which could be converted to making necessities during a war, from bullets to shoes. The Northern states had 110,274.
19 agosto 2016
The Confederacy Started With A Major Disadvantage
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