but richmond was decided the vice president for the confederacy, was actually from alexander stephens. and one of the things he argued was that we needed virginia, the confederates needed virginia because they had this large population of military age men and did not, in fact, the political capital. but as we'll see here, it became a capital for the confederacy. other ways. the intelligence in newspaper, like people in the north and south, understood critical importance of the city. so the war's there was, quote, no greater prize in the confederacy outside of richmond. robert o'connell notes quote, if the south had a workshop for war, it was atlanta. and then johnson who was a general for confederacy, said, should atlanta fall fearful indeed will be the response ability. the richmond of virginia is virginia, but the political richmond is a political richmond but the richmond in georgia is atlanta, which the is more important. atlanta means that if atlanta collapses the confederacy, a war machine will collapse. and therefore the war effort will collapse. so when all this is on the unit