The Alex Garland film is sparking discussion about its release during a contentious election year: "The idea of civil war actually keeps me up at night."
President Lincoln offered Robert E. Lee control of the Union Army. The Confederate officer corps was pretty high quality; Custer ended up a General on the Union side. The CSA had good relations with the two superpowers of the day [UK and France] and a highly sought after product [cotton]. Most of their troops were hard scrabble country boys who were used to working from sun up to sun set on a plate of beans.
The Anti-Federalist forces of today are lead by Donald Trump and Lauren Bobert.
The CSA did not have good relations with any super powers. They had to meet in secret and were never acknowledged. The only part of any super power relationship that actually benefited the CSA was buying cotten smuggled out on the black market and allowing the sale of old warships and they never actually arrived. Also the idea that southern soldiers were better is an idea backed up by the lost cause for decades now, and doesn’t seem to be universally true.
President Lincoln offered Robert E. Lee control of the Union Army. The Confederate officer corps was pretty high quality; Custer ended up a General on the Union side. The CSA had good relations with the two superpowers of the day [UK and France] and a highly sought after product [cotton]. Most of their troops were hard scrabble country boys who were used to working from sun up to sun set on a plate of beans.
The Anti-Federalist forces of today are lead by Donald Trump and Lauren Bobert.
The CSA did not have good relations with any super powers. They had to meet in secret and were never acknowledged. The only part of any super power relationship that actually benefited the CSA was buying cotten smuggled out on the black market and allowing the sale of old warships and they never actually arrived. Also the idea that southern soldiers were better is an idea backed up by the lost cause for decades now, and doesn’t seem to be universally true.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/books/review/lion-and-the-fox-alexander-rose.html
Sounds like you’d like this one.
“The Lion And The Fox” by Alexander Rose. True story of the Union and Confederates in England, trying to control the seas.
Ooh, I probably would, thanks for the recommendation! This was a single chapter in a book I read that covered the whole history of the war.