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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 9568256" data-attributes="member: 6998052">Not to mention the degree of infrastructure. The South's rail system was haphazard and insufficient, geared primarily for the movement of ag goods..Winfield Scott anticipated the route to victory; it was his original plan, which he put in motion in 1861, that broke the CSA: naval blockade, port seizure, and securing the Mississippi.If you remove Lee from the history, the South would have gone under by '63. If the AoP had competent leadership during the Peninsular Campaign, the war could have been over in '62. Or at least Richmond would have been taken. The only real hope the CSA ever had was foreign intervention, but that would have required divesting themselves of the institution of slavery.</blockquote>