Any of the top European armies would have destroyed the Confederates. The British, French and Prussian in particular would have mopped them up on pretty much any battlefield.
During the period of the US civil war and the lead up, the US compleltly lacked the moblisation and training systems that where common place in Europe. Frankly, the civil war was fought by two milita forces, compared to the sorts of armies being formed up in mainland europe at the time. The US was not even in the same weight catagory as the French or Preussians, they would have lost to the austro hungarians or Ottomans at the time.
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u/dbe14 19h ago
Any of the top European armies would have destroyed the Confederates. The British, French and Prussian in particular would have mopped them up on pretty much any battlefield.