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Log in. Install the app. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter manitobot Start date May 4, Tags discord redux united americas united americas: the more perfect union. Prev 1 2 Go to page. First Prev 2 of 3 Go to page. Reader mode. Along the Chester Line in Pennsylvania, the stalemate of trench warfare remained.
Both sides created ever more elaborate trench systems, and nighttime raids with knives and clubs were commonplace. Many chalked up these rumors to excuses for why rations were missing, or the over-active imaginations of young recruits unaccustomed to the surreal sights of industrial warfare.
David in eastern Pennsylvania. Merrimack and Monitor ironclads clogged the Delaware River, and both sides engaged in bitter mountain warfare in the Appalachians to try and get around the Chester Line. The CSA had less industry and fewer people, and Dixie was never able to fully mobilize its entire population for fear of a slave revolt. Thought the Confederate States Army had better soldiers on average, the Union seemingly had troops to spare.
A war of attrition was not something the Confederacy could reliably fight and win. Stories often only slightly exaggerated of the horrors of the Chester Line reached the poor and immigrant communities of Boston, New York, Ottawa, Trenton, Halifax, Montreal and Toronto.
