So, something I've been mulling recently: why did the South lose the war, and who's to blame? I'm writing an essay putting much of the blame on Lee, but of course there are other options. What do y'all think?
Start with the railroads, that answers a lot of problems. North Carolina was found to have warehouses busting with food and supplies at the end of the war but the problem was the gauge on the tracks varied from state to state and they had a problem getting the supplies to the front.
Didn't the Union have an estimated 85% of rail roads, or something to that figure?
I seem to recall it being very proportional to population, actually. That would have helped the more urban & more densely populated North, which makes sense in view of history.
