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Southern life was set by a landed gentry, the small minority of well-to-do planters.  They practiced a cultivated chivalry, kindness towards those of inferior status, a code of honor among equals, and a gallantry towards women.   

Southern life was set by a landed gentry, the small minority of well-to-do planters.  They practiced a cultivated chivalry, kindness towards those of inferior status, a code of honor among equals, and a gallantry towards women.   

The money made from cotton was spent on goods manufactured in the North, as well as imports from Europe.  They had a taste for well-bred horses, quality firearms, foxhounds, and the belles from fine Southern families.  And they also studied astudiously the arts of war, often spending large sums of money to send themselves or their sons to military schools.  One Mississippi planter, Jefferson Davis, remarked that only in the South "did a gentlemen go to a military academy who did not intend to follow the profession of arms." (TL 1, pg 12)

The money made from cotton was spent on goods manufactured in the North, as well as imports from Europe.  They had a taste for well-bred horses, quality firearms, foxhounds, and the belles from fine Southern families.  And they also studied assiduously the arts of war, often spending large sums of money to send themselves or their sons to military schools.  One Mississippi planter, Jefferson Davis, remarked that only in the South "did a gentlemen go to a military academy who did not intend to follow the profession of arms." (TL 1, pg 12)

But the South had several serious drawbacks.  Its population at 1860 was roughly 9 million people, of whom more than 3 million were slaves, versus more than 21 million in the North.  There were only 18,000 manufacturing plants of any kind in the South, as opposed to the North's more than 100,000.  Of these, only two were capable of producing [[rolled iron]], one which produced [[gunpowder]], and none capable of producing [[firearms]]; there were twenty-seven gun manufacturers in Massachusetts alone.  More than 70% of all [[railroad]] mileage was north of the Ohio River; the South had the remainder.

But the South had several serious drawbacks.  Its population at 1860 was roughly 9 million people, of whom more than 3 million were slaves, versus more than 21 million in the North.  There were only 18,000 manufacturing plants of any kind in the South, as opposed to the North's more than 100,000.  Of these, only two were capable of producing [[rolled iron]], one which produced [[gunpowder]], and none capable of producing [[firearms]]; there were twenty-seven gun manufacturers in Massachusetts alone.  More than 70% of all [[railroad]] mileage was north of the Ohio River; the South had the remainder.