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because it had more industrial capacity,
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or as Ken Burns has Shelby Foote say at one point
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the star of his film
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has Shelby Foote say at one point in the film,
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"The North fought that war with one hand behind its back."
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Bullshit Shelby, they really did not fight that war
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with one hand behind their back.
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But it helps make a nice explanation,
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or the beginnings of a nice explanation for southern defeat.
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There were many Union advantages. Let me just tick off several.
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First in finances, the North had
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most of this in New York City and a couple of other cities