1. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend” it.

6. The balance sheet at the war’s beginning

7. CSA General Pierre Gustave Toutante de Beauregarde
“No people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederacy.”
CSA General Pierre Gustave Toutante de Beauregarde

8. No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is King.”
“We could bring the whole world to our feet. What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? . . England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her. No, you dare not make war on cotton!
No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is King.”
--South Carolina Senator James Hammond

10. War for Independence, 1775-1783:
25,000 killed or wounded; 25,000 dead of disease
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775): 410 killed and wounded
Battle of Saratoga (1777): 800 killed and wounded
Battle of Cowpens (1781 ): 340 killed and wounded
War of 1812, :
4,400 killed or wounded
Battle of Plattsburgh, 1814: 200 killed and wounded
Battle of New Orleans, 1815: 71 killed and wounded
Mexican War, :
5,700 killed or wounded; 13,000 dead of disease
Battle of Resaca de la Palma, 1846: 120 killed and wounded
Battle of Buena Vista, 1847: 710 killed and wounded
Battle of Chapultepec, 1847: 830 killed and wounded

11. War for Independence, 1775-1783:
Civil War,
First Manassas, 1861: 3,500
Seven Days, 1861: 29,000
Second Manassas, 1862: 19,000
Shiloh, 1862: 20,000
Antietam, 1862: 23,000
Fredericksburg, 1862: 16,000
Murfreesboro, 1862: 18,500
Chancellorsville, 1863: 22,000
Gettysburg, 1863: 40,000
Chickamauga, 1863: 28,000
Wilderness to Cold Harbor, 1864: 82,000
Nashville, 1864: 9,000
War for Independence, :
25,000 killed or wounded; 25,000 dead of disease
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775): 410 killed and wounded
Battle of Saratoga (1777): 800 killed and wounded
Battle of Cowpens (1781 ): 340 killed and wounded
War of 1812, :
4,400 killed or wounded
Battle of Plattsburgh, 1814: 200 killed and wounded
Battle of New Orleans, 1815: 71 killed and wounded
Mexican War, :
5,700 killed or wounded; 13,000 dead of disease
Battle of Resaca de la Palma, 1846: 120 killed and wounded
Battle of Buena Vista, 1847: 710 killed and wounded
Battle of Chapultepec, 1847: 830 killed and wounded

30. Three-part model of military motivation:
INITIAL MOTIVATION:
factors that lead soldiers to join the army in the first place
SUSTAINING MOTIVATION:
factors that keep soldiers with the army on campaign
COMBAT MOTIVATION:
factors that drive soldiers once battle begins

44. Three Categories of Motivators:
REMUNERATIVE MOTIVATORS:
money or the promise of plunder
COERCIVE MOTIVATORS:
threat or direct application of force
NORMATIVE MOTIVATORS:
withdrawal of acceptance from a peer group

48. This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing.
Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt.