may be an example if weigly is right and maybe a way of saying weigly and gallagher is right and gallagher is right when he talks about what confederate public opinion wants and talks about the imperatives of southern white culture. wiegly may be correct from a military strategic perspective that the more plausible military strategy is the fabian strategy. they may be boatright. both right and that s probably the biggest problem is i can maing those two compatible. now we circle back to lee. do we think of lee as someone whose strategy well, here is this. do you think lee s strategy was plausible? no. say why? the south never had enough men or enough industry to compete with the north. the north was too big of power. i forget, i think it was in the gallagher reading quoting as saying the north fought with a hand tied behind their back. shelby foote. so the juggernaut of northern industrialization and man power would have overwhelmed the south regardless. i think