what made the civil war a prolonged conflict?

Question

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

one name:
robert e. lee.

lee will probably never get the true credit that he deserves for his accomplishments during the civil war.

lee repeatedly had an uncanny understanding of his opponents and did things like divide his forces in the face of superior numbers.

this also means that lee did something that almost none of his contempories did - he parted from the rules of warfare that he learned at west point.

lee had an innate understanding of warfare and was alone in suggesting that the south emancipate slaves, if they would take up arms against the north. lee not only suggested freeing slaves that would help with the war effort, but he suggested treating them like southerners.

no one agreed with him until it was far too late to put this into effective practice.

but in the end, lee failed - he failed at gettysburg.

the entire war came down to picket's charge (even though it would last another 2.5 years, from then there would be no chance of a southern victory). it nearly worked, but it didn't and gettysburg was officially a draw.

but to the south, it became their high water mark - the deepest the army of north virginia would go into the north and the last time they really tried to take the fight to the north.

perhaps what lee should be most remembered for was his refusal to support the idea that the southern armies should disband into the hills and fight a guerilla style war that could have lasted for decades and made the american south more like 20th century ireland than it became.

grant too, told his soldiers to stop celebrating after the surrender at appomatox courthouse, virginia.

these simple gestures made a real healing possible and actually made it such that these two armies realized the depth of the respect they had for each other.

lee should go down in history with hannibal, julius ceasar and enrst rommel as among the greatest tacticians ever.

but on his deathbed, he returned to gettysburg, in his delusion just before death and relived pickets charge - when all of those brave men tried so hard in vain and the south came so close.

so close...

Answer 3

There are many things that prolonged the war. First and foremost was even though the North was more industrialized than the South and could replace war fighting material at a much faster rate than the south, the North went through many Commanders of the Northern Army. Most, until U.S. Grant were to indecisive, and when they did have a battle won, failed to pursue their momentum.
The South had excellent leadership in Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Longstreet, etc. They always chose their ground well on which to fight, and were much more tactically sound in their conduct of a battle. They in essence did more with less. Relied on captured supply trains and captured equipment from the battlefield to offset losses to material.
Had the South won the Battle of Gettysburg, it is very well possible that Britain would have assisted the Confederacy in its bid for secession, and with the power of Britain behind them, they could have very well won the war. Britain could have broken the blockade on southern ports, provided war materials, and possible even "mercenary" forces to strengthen the Souths depleted manpower.

Answer 4

The South wouldn't surrender.