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First person I ever heard that thinks the CSA was larger and should have fought longer.

	CSA	Union
Population	9 million	22 million
Value of Improved Land	$2B	$5B
No. Textile Factories	150	900
No. Persons Manufacturing Clothing	2000	100,000
Import Value	$331M	$31M
Source: http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/civwar/confed.html *Numbers for 1860

[Non-Sequitur]

Import Value CSA $331 million, Union $31 million

I noticed that those import values were unsourced on that website, stainless. But assuming for the sake of arguement that it the figures are correct, then if the South accounted for almost 90% of all imports in 1860 and total tariff revenues were roughly $60 million, that would mean that the North accounted for only $6 million in revenue in 1860. So how could that $6 million figure grow to $110 million only 4 years later?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

First person I ever heard that thinks the CSA was larger and should have fought longer.

It was a huge land and the CSA didn't have to invade and subdue the North, all they had to do was to sustain the resistance. Had the Southern people had a cause they deeply believed in they would have persevered a lot longer. When the going got tough, the South got going back home and out of the rebellion. Many thousands of Confederate soldiers deserted the army, many avoided conscription in the first place and many from the mountains even joined the Union army. Of all the myths of the Confederacy, the idea of a Solid South supporting the slaveowners' rebellion is one of the most far fetched.