Quote Originally Posted by John Kepler View Post
Without question Vern, but a lot of it went to the very foundation of the Confederacy....States Rights!

Unlike the Federal forces, the Confederate Gub'mint didn't own those guns, the STATES did, and in some cases (militia groups), the individual gunners!. Once a battery was organized and equipped by a state or a community, it was pretty much inviolate! E. Porter Alexander tried on NUMEROUS occasions to re-organize the various hodge-podge of guns in his batteries in 1862, only to start gigantic sh*t-storms with the state governors, particular John Letcher of Virginia and Joe Brown of Georgia over the attempted THEFT of state property by the central government! ...
Am I mistaken or didn't the Confederacy nationalize the railroads? They did it to standardize the rail gauge. So much for States Rights.