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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;justbored, post: 2041735, member: 39990&quot;]I hate to get off topic, but I felt the need to address this misconception.</p><p><br /></p><p>If these countries had any plans to send soldiers (or any type of Southern assistance) they would have done it previous to 1863, as they were being lobbied to do so basically from the get go. One of the Confederacy&#039;s fatal mistakes (aside from non matching railroad gauge) was their initial assumption that this would happen. By 1863 they were privately pretty well aware that the chances of it being a reality were slim (regardless of anything the publically verbal optimist Davis may have said). Unrealized by the South, these countries had huge stockpiles of Southern cotton and thus no real need to get involved (European blockade runner ports and military and civilian provision sales aside). The huge loss at Gettysburg cemented that there would be no foreign intervention in support of an (at that point) unwinnable war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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