Abstract
The South's most unexpected adversary in the Civil War, and most deadly, proved to be the South itself. While lavishly offering up its young men, the Confederacy would not divert enough other resources to that war, for commercial goals continued to dominate the Southern economy. Those goals have been obscured by the agony and heroism of the war, by the cavalier braggadocio that marked its outbreak. And by the belief that Northern industrialism triumphed over a gallant and chivalric society oriented to high ideals, blood sports, and sadism.2 The reasons why the North won have been noted a thousand times. In William Faulkner's summary, Who else would have declared a war against a power with ten times the area, and a hundred times the men, and a thousand times the resources?3 Yet a generation that saw a tiny Asian country defeat the world's most powerful nation should not lightly assume that resources or
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