President Davis (He was the president of the Confederate) had amazing Generals. One of his problems was that he didn't have enough food, clothing, weapons, and ships. The Confederate soldiers had a hard time fighting, because they were starving. They also rarely had shoes, and they were sometimes forced to take shoes off of dead Union soldiers. President Davis wasn't worried though. They were positive that England would back them up and that England would send them supplies. They were positive because England bought cotton from the south, the southerners bought manufactured goods from England, they were friends, and England needed cotton for their cotton mills. They were absolutely positive, England would rescue them. He was wrong. The mills
