Southern Government
The Confederate Government organized itself in Montgomery, Alabama. The Provisional Congress, which was composed of delegates from all the seceded states, assembled for the first time on February 4, 1861. Soon after, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as provisional President. It would be later suggested by Confederate Military leaders, such as William Oates, that Davis was the wrong kind of leader needed by the South at that time. It has been suggested the type of leader they should have inaugurated should have been more like Napoleon or Frederick the Great. It has been suggested that this was the South’s first mistake. -Oates thought Davis should have kept the bureaucracy in Richmond small, taken greater care in the appointment of generals, and placed the welfare of the nation’s soldiers first.1
What are your thoughts? Was this the first mistake?
Last sentence attributed to Glen W. LaFantasie “Gettysburg Requiem”
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The South’s mistake was not their choice of leader, but their waging of a war for the benefit of the planter class, and their expectation that the lower classes, who had never owned a slave, would, out of some patriotic fervor based on racism, go to their deaths to protect their newly minted government.
People refer to the Confederacy as the “Lost Cause”..and they’re right. It was lost from the get-go…a government that couldn’t feed or clothe it’s people, that expected it’s men to go and die while their familes at home starved because Cotton was King…food stuffs were a distant second. Nothing noble about it..the Confederacy was foolery.
It is true that the South was over powered, under supplied and full of confidence. If their beliefs were foolery, then this nation was birthed on foolery. During the Revolutionary War against England were we not under powered, under trained, under supplied and full of confidence? Yet, here we are…The United States. I do not agree with the idea of foolery….The ideals of government for the people, by the people is not foolery….They wanted less federal government and more control to remain in the peoples hands. And, I believe today we are feeling the affects of too much federal government…Their ideals were not foolery. However, there were far too many mistakes and far too much arrogance for victory to happen.
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