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What are some of the more commonly heard misconceptions that you hear regarding the American Civil War? I know that a lot of it is up to debate since many are at least partially true (some are just plain false). Preferably this doesn't have many Alt-history elements since we already have a dedicated thread for that at the moment. I had intention of doing a video on this topic but would like to see some more suggestions or some debate with my points. Would also prefer having some more northern misconceptions since I really don't have much for them..

The points that I were thinking of discussing would be

The North/border states lacked slaves at the start of the war (heard this plenty)
The South had better generals
The South had better soldiers (hear the "one southerner for ten northerners" often)
CSS Virginia could have beaten the whole Northern Navy/besieged Washington
One battle could have caused the Confederacy to win the war
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