Has anyone an interest in it? Doing a report on it here and a bit of informal discussion about it might help to get my creative juices flowing! Main topic would be why the South were defeated.
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Cuz they chose John Wayne.
Frankly my dear?
I don't give a damn! 
Only joking, but I know nothing, I'm afraid. 
I think you'll find that John Wayne was on all sides. He turned out for the Chinese nationalist air-force and still had time to be quiet in the Emerald Isle.
I suspect that the North were more sophisticated, better organised, and official.
He may have been a whore but he was definitely Confederate!
Not that that's owt to do with owt, right enough..
This is a subject I know very little about but would def be interested in hearing abiut'
Shirley the duke was a unionist in the Horse Soldiers or a meringue?
Originally Posted by RiverRock:
Has anyone an interest in it? Doing a report on it here and a bit of informal discussion about it might help to get my creative juices flowing! Main topic would be why the South were defeated.
Lack of resources was a contributory factor RR... plus poor lines of supply and communication....
Bernard Cornwell wrote a quadrilogy about the American Civil War, The Starbuck Chronicles. The husband has read them and says they are very good.
Originally Posted by Baz:
Originally Posted by RiverRock:
Has anyone an interest in it? Doing a report on it here and a bit of informal discussion about it might help to get my creative juices flowing! Main topic would be why the South were defeated.
Lack of resources was a contributory factor RR... plus poor lines of supply and communication....
And a supposedly drunken General (Grant)? who messed up big time. I remeber learning about thar somewhere!
The slaves were revolting....or something like that.
Read Gone with the Wind.
Contrary to popular belief it is not just a romance but an absolute fantastic account of the Deep South's version of events.
In short: the North had the greater resources, production and manpower. Short of a loss of nerve or a surprise knockout blow, the Union was always going to win a war of attrition.
Best line I know re the ACW:
"The North fought the civil war with one hand tied behind its back."
There is a programme on tonight on TG4 at 9.30pm salled Fag an Bealach about the American civil war and the Irish involvement....The buck who invented the Tricolour was a big part of it....