Advantages And Disadvantages Of The South
The Confederate Army Of The South
Eric Vlasin
Mrs. Person
American Literature
November 19, 2013
The Civil War, the war that rocked the United States in the late 1800’s, a war of a divided country, The war of the north and the south. The South wanting to secede from the nation, is what flared the war into action, and the South would soon be in danger. The South in the civil war, what did they plan, what did they have, and who were the leaders?
The average soldier, and unshaven scrawny teen to mid aged male, that just wanted adventure. The soldier would usually be white and between the ages of 18 and 35 (Confederate Soldier). These boys would just hear about the war, and would go and enlist in the army …show more content…
One of the main disadvantages was the fact that they did not have all the factories to make their weapons and supplies. Though they would have the farms to produce food for their men, they did not have enough railroads to transfer all the food to their men. Another huge factor and disadvantage to the North was that the South lacked the numbers to the North. The North would have almost and unlimited number of men they could draft into the army, as the South only had what they drafted at the start of the war, and what little volunteers they could get. So when the army was gone, so were their chances of winning the …show more content…
When the states would start to secede from the North, he would hope his home state of Virginia would stay with the North, but when it seceded, he too would join the south in the war. When the war started he was recruited into the VMI and was put in command of a ragtag force. After training and battle hardening his men, Stonewall would eventually gain his nickname, “Stonewall”, in the first battle of Bull Run when he held a huge force from the north with his small unit of men. Stonewall would eventually start a period of poor leadership starting at June 1862 to July 1862. He would begin to lead his men into battles he could not win. He started loosing creditability with his men. On May 2nd 1963 he would be accidentally shot by one of his own men in the South Carolina infantry regiment. He would be transferred through several hospitals, but would eventually end up in Guinea Station and would mutter his last words, “let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of trees” (Stonewall
Eric Vlasin
Mrs. Person
American Literature
November 19, 2013
The Civil War, the war that rocked the United States in the late 1800’s, a war of a divided country, The war of the north and the south. The South wanting to secede from the nation, is what flared the war into action, and the South would soon be in danger. The South in the civil war, what did they plan, what did they have, and who were the leaders?
The average soldier, and unshaven scrawny teen to mid aged male, that just wanted adventure. The soldier would usually be white and between the ages of 18 and 35 (Confederate Soldier). These boys would just hear about the war, and would go and enlist in the army …show more content…
One of the main disadvantages was the fact that they did not have all the factories to make their weapons and supplies. Though they would have the farms to produce food for their men, they did not have enough railroads to transfer all the food to their men. Another huge factor and disadvantage to the North was that the South lacked the numbers to the North. The North would have almost and unlimited number of men they could draft into the army, as the South only had what they drafted at the start of the war, and what little volunteers they could get. So when the army was gone, so were their chances of winning the …show more content…
When the states would start to secede from the North, he would hope his home state of Virginia would stay with the North, but when it seceded, he too would join the south in the war. When the war started he was recruited into the VMI and was put in command of a ragtag force. After training and battle hardening his men, Stonewall would eventually gain his nickname, “Stonewall”, in the first battle of Bull Run when he held a huge force from the north with his small unit of men. Stonewall would eventually start a period of poor leadership starting at June 1862 to July 1862. He would begin to lead his men into battles he could not win. He started loosing creditability with his men. On May 2nd 1963 he would be accidentally shot by one of his own men in the South Carolina infantry regiment. He would be transferred through several hospitals, but would eventually end up in Guinea Station and would mutter his last words, “let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of trees” (Stonewall