To make a story that covers whole libraries, logistics, supply chains and war industry, really short: Government, during war time, sets the priorities and poli

To make a story that covers whole libraries, logistics, supply chains and war industry, really short: Government, during war time, sets the priorities and policies, industry put those policies in place. This results in output, guns, uniforms, tanks, horses, ammunition, boots, food, planes, ships... How said output is used on the battlefields, and more importantly how it gets to said battlefields, is the Generals thing (including theirs staff, the general staff, high command...). Also, the civil war was one of the first semi-indistrial wars. And those cannot be won without a proper industrial base, which the South never had. And no single person can change that.