Others on 20 Most Significant Events Affecting the War-- Part 2: Moving Capital to Richmond

**  Slavery would have died out eventually, possibly by 1900.

**  Movement of Confederate capital from Montgomery to Richmond was a really bad move.  It deemphasized the importance of the Western Theater  Richmond as capital would secure Virginia for the Confederacy.  It was now, however, too close to Washington, D.C., and too hard to defend.

**  The North's Herman Haupt and his control and use of railroads was a big help in their cause.

**  Creation of the U.S. Military Rail Roads.

**  The firing of Simon Cameron

**  Dred Scott Decision and the Fugitive Slave Act.

--Old Secesh