When it comes to the Civil War, neither the North nor the South was prepared for a big war. In the North’s favor, the South was even less prepared. The South as a whole lacked a national army and a navy. Some of the advantages that the North had over the South were a larger population, a larger industrial and agricultural capacity, and a better transportation network. In the beginning of the war, the North had control of 90 percent of the nation’s industrial capacity and they also had dozens of facilities for the production of war materials where the South only had one. Northern farms could produce more meat and vegetables than the South. The railroads of the North were twice as large as the railroads in the South. The Confederacy also had