Buba
A total creep
1 - Me wrong - I thought the pre-ACW Army was closer to 12K and not the mighty host of of 16K
2 - "4th most industrialised" - I remember this from another thread on the subject, that the CSA would had ranked behind the UK, USA and France, more or less Belgium level (and ahead of Prussia). Asian countries and Russia did not figure in that ranking, hence the method of counting must had been different. Nevertheless - and regardless of how we count "industry", CSA is no lightweight in GDP/economic terms.
3 - immigration - I've seen quotes that Irish and German immigrants were used in the South for jobs where slaves were not economic (i.e. short term, seasonal) or where the risk of losing/crippling a slave was too high. So there was some sort of pre-1860 immigration into the South.
3K blokes a year who then would serve 20 year contracts with the Army - with wastage that'd be half of a 100K army. Not a particularly impressive figure ... if the CSA looks to "fresh off the boat" men (which was common practice during and after ACW - and up to this day - so I'd wager that it had been so befroe as well, thus such a practice not being unknown to the South) to flesh out its military then immigration need not be large.
Assuming that CSA industry grows faster than in OTL - which I firmly believe - then there should be more immigration and/or population growth than in OTL.
Of course, I could be wrong/out of my depth/delusional etc.
2 - "4th most industrialised" - I remember this from another thread on the subject, that the CSA would had ranked behind the UK, USA and France, more or less Belgium level (and ahead of Prussia). Asian countries and Russia did not figure in that ranking, hence the method of counting must had been different. Nevertheless - and regardless of how we count "industry", CSA is no lightweight in GDP/economic terms.
3 - immigration - I've seen quotes that Irish and German immigrants were used in the South for jobs where slaves were not economic (i.e. short term, seasonal) or where the risk of losing/crippling a slave was too high. So there was some sort of pre-1860 immigration into the South.
3K blokes a year who then would serve 20 year contracts with the Army - with wastage that'd be half of a 100K army. Not a particularly impressive figure ... if the CSA looks to "fresh off the boat" men (which was common practice during and after ACW - and up to this day - so I'd wager that it had been so befroe as well, thus such a practice not being unknown to the South) to flesh out its military then immigration need not be large.
Assuming that CSA industry grows faster than in OTL - which I firmly believe - then there should be more immigration and/or population growth than in OTL.
Of course, I could be wrong/out of my depth/delusional etc.
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