Why Did The South Ignore Its Northern Flank

[williamlayton]

South Carolina did start the war.
Blessings

[BUGEYE]

the people who were there are slanted toward their own side.
south carolina started the war while buchanan was prez by building an army and seizing installations belonging to the United States.  the north was not building an army and when lincoln was elected he said he wanted to avoid war and when the Star of the West was dispatched to fort sumter, lincoln told SC that an unarmed supply ship was coming with general stores, no guns or ammo, they still fired on it. even then lincoln was reluctant to go to war but finally gave in to public opinion three months after sumter was fired on.
btw, how do you explain veep stephens innaugarul speech concerning slavery.

William, sorry about ruining your thread.

[williamlayton]

AWWWWW--no thread is immune to going different ways.
Still it is good arguement/discussion.
Blessings

[reliquary]

I haven't been on this thread before; just posted a couple of comments on William's other one, "Commander/commanders of the northern flank".  Happened to notice this one, so here's an observation or two on the ORIGINAL question on this thread:
 
The South didn't ignore the northern/western flank, so much, as it just didn't have enough manpower early in the war to effectively defend it.  By definition, the Confederacy had to use troops provided by the individual member States.  They were forced to use the umpty-umpth Texas Cavalry or the somethingth Mississippi Infantry, etc, trying to marshal enough forces in whatever area faced the most imminent threat. 
 
Command and control over long distances was tenuous at best and impractical in most instances. 
 
FWIW, one of my collateral relatives was in John Bell Hood's 4th Texas; an ancestor was a 17-year-old in the 14th Texas Infantry in the Red River Campaign. 
 
 

[BUGEYE]

the south were late comers in the secessation buisness.  I learned that shortly after the Louisiana purchase, Aaron Burr and his cronies wanted that to separate from the USA.