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It will take the flower of the country -the young men." If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. "If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. The fictional Rhett Butler only echoed statements made by prominent, prescient (and real) Southerners at the time, like Sam Houston. Rhett Butler wasn't far off in listing factories, coal mines, and shipyards as essential materials. As Rhett Butler pointed out in Gone With The Wind, there were just some things the South lacked that the North had in massive amounts - and it just so happened that all those things were the things you need to fight a war.Ĭotton, slaves, and arrogance just wasn't going to be enough to overcome everything else the Confederates lacked. Not everyone in the South was very confident about the Confederacy's chances of winning the Civil War. If zeal could be weaponized in wartime, the Confederacy might have had a chance.
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