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☆☆☆☆☆The Confederacy lost at Glorieta Pass and had to walk back to Texas.
* The confederates retreated to Texas and never again threatened union control of the Southwest
They surrendered.
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
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They were missing official recognition by the British and French, which might have happened, until Lincoln skillfully deflected it by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Confederacy was missing a number of important things and even so, it still had a chance.
- The South was missing more of an industrial base than it had;
- An alliance with Great Britain would have let the South go "free". Depending of course on the degree of commitment.
- A larger civilian population with which to bring into the army.
Vicksburg had many geographical advantages.
Some timely battlefield victories, to compensate for the terrible casualties coming out of Grant's endless Siege of Petersburg.
Sheridan in the Shenandoah, Sherman in Atlanta, and Farragut in Mobile.
It was an excuse for not returning the slaves to their owners, and thereby weakening the Southern economy.
