Throw in the Union Navy and the industrial capacity of the North, and I would bet on them in any conflict in 1864. Grant and Lee on the same side would have been a force to be reckoned with!
Matchless
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
When the Jews called up forces they only accepted men who wanted to go to war. They sent home men who did not want to go to war, men recently married and non-combatant men. They wanted warriors.
The blue and the grey were warriors who wanted to fight for what they held to be the truth; the grey believing falsely that their position was true.
I wonder, was that latent might understood by the courts that sent European observers to our Civil War? What was the influence on their policy if so?
It was widely assumed in Europe that the Union would use its huge military force to conquer Canada and Mexico after the War. They were stunned that the troops were simply sent back to their homes after the War, the huge armies vanishing over night. Most Europeans have never understood this country.
I seem to remember a scriptural passage about seeing a larger army and then being prompted to negotiate. Lincoln never campaigned on total abolition. He simply wanted to stop its expansion. Fortunately for the country as a whole, the Confederacy disputed the issue and started rebellion, settling the problem in a rather forceful manner.
Lincoln wanted Robert E. Lee to command the Union army, and he offered him the job.
But he had to settle for McClellan and others before he found Grant.
Not just a force to be reckoned with…the pre eminent military power in the world….from a nation not even 90 years old.
There are not a few YouTube videos, the topic is that it would be idiocy to invade the United States.
Would have been stupid then, too
Casimir Pulaski, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and Tadeusz Kosciuszko understood freedom and independence of the sovereign citizen as opposed to being a subject under monarchy.
Casimir Pulaski tried to assassinate King Stanislaus II of Poland and escaped to America.
Being royal imposes greater responsibility in serving the nation’s people.