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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stonewall Jackson or JEB Stuart.  Both were brilliant.

While the reasons behind the South succeding and strating the US Civil War was wrong and morally corrupt (and it WAS slavery, not States Rights, get real people), the Confederacy had much better military leaders and enlisted men.  [b]The Confederacy lost due to the rapid industrializing of the Northern States and their greater wealth[/b].  Of course, that too was one of the reasons the South succeded, the Southern planters knew the economy of the South was completely dependent on slave labor and would rapidly become the most impoverished region of the USA without the slaves to make the agraian society successful.  [/quote]

I'd agree on Jackson as a corps commander.  Stuart was daring and very colorful, but I don't know about brilliant.  In the end though, the Confederacy lost because it was hopelessly outnumbered by an adversary that had the will to fight to the end.  They achieved stunning battle victory to be sure, but they were ultimately ground down in what became a war of attrition.  You can't win those outnumbered over two to one when the bigger guy is also better able to produce war materiel and supply his force.[/quote]

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