Turnbuckles are also used extensively in watercraft and aircraft to regulate the lengths and tensions of riggings and rope and cable lines. In all applications, turnbuckles should be selected to be at least as strong as the cable or rope to which they're secured.
The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was created by the Radical Republicans, who believed that absolute punishment had to be levied against the South as a condition of re-admittance during Reconstruction. The bill called for a complete abolition of slavery to prevent it from surviving in any way after the war.
The alternative was a victory for the Democrat party, parts of which were committed to peace. Perhaps President Davis might have taken up General Cleburneâs proposal to redress the Southâs manpower shortage by conscripting slaves. In short, the Confederacy was not inevitably a âLost Causeâ.