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This still left paths to victory for the south. Most simply, they could continue to demoralize the North until the will to fight was gone. The largest army does not always win, nor does the bigger country, and there are reasons for that. This does not mean that the facts listed in point 2 where not incredibly key, but to say the south had no chance is false.
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I think number two is actually the best point on the list, the demographics and industrial imbalance really show the South was just about beat from the start. You'll notice its total number of Soldiers is about 20% of its total free population, while the North only seemed to have mobilized about 10% of its population. Not to mention arms production etc that was listed.
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It freed some of them
This is weird. I was creating a poll on Civil War allegiance, when my computer shut down. Now I see this. Wow.
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I know it is rare. I completely agree. His goal was to make the South bleed to death on the battlefield. He succeeded.Actually it is. The single quickest, strongest, best path to victory for the North was to stop dicking around and go to an all out war of attrition, and say what you want about Grant(such as he was a terrible tactician, not entirely false), but strategically he was exceptional, and he showed the will to continue with his strategy, which was not easy. The south had what was probably the best tactical leader of the era in Lee, and previous to Grant, the North mostly fought Lee in ways that accentuated Lee's strength. Grant, for all the **** he is given, was the one general who managed to take Lee's strength away from him.