What strengths and weaknesses did you find on the confederate side of the civil war?

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

Could anything have been done through compromise to stop it, or did it have to happen?

Why did countries not allow jewish refugees asylum?