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8/8/2025, 7:58:42 AM
>>17903033
I always imagined that if the Confederates had won the Civil War, ports like Savannah, New Orleans, and Houston would be aggressively competing with their Northern counterparts to have cheaper imports and docking fees.
I always imagined that if the Confederates had won the Civil War, ports like Savannah, New Orleans, and Houston would be aggressively competing with their Northern counterparts to have cheaper imports and docking fees.
8/5/2025, 9:01:06 AM
>>64078485
McClellan had a lot of flaws but he was far from the worst Union general or even the worst commander of the Army of the Potomac for that matter.
If we're looking for the worst Union general, that dubious title arguably belongs to
>John C. Fremont (nearly caused Missouri and Kentucky to join the Confederacy by issuing his own Emancipation Proclamation in 1861, he might very well have cost the Union the war if it hadn't been immediately reversed)
>John Pope (failed spectacularly at Second Manassas and proceeded to scapegoat his subordinates for it)
>Franz Sigel (lost to the former Vice President and some schoolboys at New Market)
And before anyone mentions Sickles, I think it's safe to say that his performance at Chancellorsville is very much underappreciated and his poor decisions at Gettysburg were much the product of his frustration that his advice hadn't been heeded the first time around.
McClellan had a lot of flaws but he was far from the worst Union general or even the worst commander of the Army of the Potomac for that matter.
If we're looking for the worst Union general, that dubious title arguably belongs to
>John C. Fremont (nearly caused Missouri and Kentucky to join the Confederacy by issuing his own Emancipation Proclamation in 1861, he might very well have cost the Union the war if it hadn't been immediately reversed)
>John Pope (failed spectacularly at Second Manassas and proceeded to scapegoat his subordinates for it)
>Franz Sigel (lost to the former Vice President and some schoolboys at New Market)
And before anyone mentions Sickles, I think it's safe to say that his performance at Chancellorsville is very much underappreciated and his poor decisions at Gettysburg were much the product of his frustration that his advice hadn't been heeded the first time around.
7/4/2025, 10:25:07 AM
>>212331004
I always imagined the Confederacy would have turned out in the long run as a slightly warmer, poorer, and browner version of Canada. Existing in the United States of America's shadow, but nonetheless militarily and geopolitically aligned with it due to the shared cultural heritage of the Anglosphere.
As bloody as the debate over slavery got, it would have fallen apart by the end of the 19th Century regardless of which side won. And by the midpoint of the 20th Century, the fundamental threat that aggressively expansionist and anti-democratic powers like the Soviet Union, Imperial Japan, and Nazi Germany posed would have eventually pushed North and South back into the same bloc.
Also, it would be economically and politically dominated by Texas. A Confederate California if you will. If anything, it would Virginia and Tennessee getting mad at their ever-increasing irrelevancy.
I always imagined the Confederacy would have turned out in the long run as a slightly warmer, poorer, and browner version of Canada. Existing in the United States of America's shadow, but nonetheless militarily and geopolitically aligned with it due to the shared cultural heritage of the Anglosphere.
As bloody as the debate over slavery got, it would have fallen apart by the end of the 19th Century regardless of which side won. And by the midpoint of the 20th Century, the fundamental threat that aggressively expansionist and anti-democratic powers like the Soviet Union, Imperial Japan, and Nazi Germany posed would have eventually pushed North and South back into the same bloc.
Also, it would be economically and politically dominated by Texas. A Confederate California if you will. If anything, it would Virginia and Tennessee getting mad at their ever-increasing irrelevancy.
7/4/2025, 10:21:24 AM
>>212331004
I always imagined the Confederacy would have turned out in the long run as a slightly warmer, poorer, and browner version of Canada. Existing in the United States of America's shadow, but nonetheless militarily and geopolitically aligned with it due to the shared cultural heritage of the Anglosphere.
As bloody as the debate over slavery got, it would have fallen apart by the end of the 20th Century regardless of which side won, and the fundamental threat that aggressively expansionist and anti-democratic powers like the Soviet Union, Imperial Japan, and Nazi Germany posed would have eventually pushed North and South back into the same bloc.
I always imagined the Confederacy would have turned out in the long run as a slightly warmer, poorer, and browner version of Canada. Existing in the United States of America's shadow, but nonetheless militarily and geopolitically aligned with it due to the shared cultural heritage of the Anglosphere.
As bloody as the debate over slavery got, it would have fallen apart by the end of the 20th Century regardless of which side won, and the fundamental threat that aggressively expansionist and anti-democratic powers like the Soviet Union, Imperial Japan, and Nazi Germany posed would have eventually pushed North and South back into the same bloc.
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