2006-12-04 14:57:00 · 6 answers · asked by orzoff 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It is not any different from today take at the military questions . It is filled with we will kick China, North Korea and Iran butts. Don't they know how bad we are they should just roll over and give up. There was even a Confederate Math book that had a question which read if one Confederate can whip 25 Yankees how many yankees can 7 Confederates whip? That is why they send 18 yr olds to war not thirty something, they have common sense. The North thought their numbers would quickly carry the field; while we were convince our dedication, skill and being nature "warriors" would carry the day.
God Bless them all along with the Southern People.
2006-12-04 18:05:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The south believed that "cotton is king" -- that is, Britain had to support the Confederacy to obtain cotton. Therefore, a war would be short as foreign intervention (Britain and France) would force a negociated peace. As it happened Britain had cotton surpluses and needed the grain shipments from the north even more than southern cotton. France waited for British support before supporting the southern confederacy.
The north knew it had a superior industrial and manpower base which (as it believed) faced an insurrection by essentially agrarian-based states with limited war material production capacity . A few quick wins and the south couldn't continue the war.
2006-12-04 15:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by Carl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well each other side assumed wrongly that the other would just be a push over, boy were they wrong, why I dont really know, just the assumptions of the time i suppose, but either way it became the most destructive conflict in American History, Imagined if it had happened 20 or 30 years later with that technology.
2006-12-04 15:14:35 · answer #3 · answered by asmith1022_2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They both believed the other was much weaker, they both thought the other was in the wrong, they both thought God was on their side and they both thought their "brothers" would would not want to fight each other for too long.
Probably other reasons too.
2006-12-04 15:14:28 · answer #4 · answered by joannaserah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"We'll be home by Christmas" type thinking is common at the beginning of any war.
2006-12-04 18:03:21 · answer #5 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no military
2006-12-04 15:04:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋