Michael Hoover marx and engels, perhaps engels and marx in this instance given fe's greater impatience with what both thought to be incompetent union military command/strategy in early years of civil war, while km apparently never wavered in belief that north would win, engels was pretty pessmistic for a time...
^^^ CB; Yes, in the division of labor between Engels and Marx, Engels was the military science specialist. He wrote encyclopedia articles on military history, weaponry. He was an artillery officer in an actual war in Germany.
And yes, Marx thought North would win because of superior industrial economy ( what's that economic determinism ?). Engels , the military expert, saw South with better generals , etc.
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in any event, their 1862 co-authored article was largely a critique of union military commanders' so-called 'anaconda' plan for the south, while true that sherman's march through the confederacy resembled suggestion that m&e make in their article, i don't think there is any - even half-baked - evidence indicating something akin to union military commanders consulting/reading engels and marx... mh
^^^^^^ CB: Marx and Engels weren't the types to just write abstract articles on burning questions. There is definitely _at least_ halfbaked evidence that they communicated directly with _Lincoln_. They may have sent him stuff that wasn't published. Afterall, it would be like a report from a couple of Council of Economic Advisors before there was such a thing. How many politicaleconomists were in the cabinets at that time ? Marx was writing _Capital_ at this time , and likely had quite a bit of economic and other material data on the U.S. I can't remember where I read that they wrote letters to Lincoln as it was about fifteen years ago. Then there was Weydemeyer right there. He no doubt had ways of communicating with his commanders. He was an artillary officer, and well educated. Somebody else might have thought of the idea too , independently of Engels and Marx, but it is more than "halfbaked" likely that they got their message through to the Union leaders, including Lincoln.