Because so many of the best officers in the pre-war U.S. Army were Southerners.
Robert E. Lee was the main military leader of the Confederacy during Civil War. He was the general for most of the CW times.
Yes. The south had a long history of military tradition, and the split left the confederacy with a large array of talented officers. Generals such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were among them.
South- Transportation and importing/exporting goods North- Generals because they were either terrible or caused many casualties and 1/3 of Military officers resigned and join the Confederacy
At the onset of the US Civil War, 322 US Naval officers resigned their commissions to take positions in the Confederacy.
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No. The Confederacy had spies, but no military forces ever were in New York.
Yes. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yes. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Confederacy during the Civil War. During the war, he was injured by a saber. He was given morphine for his condition. This later led to his creation of French Wine Coca, now known as Coca-Cola.
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