Advantages Of The Union Against Confederate

The Union against the Confederacy in the Civil War During the American Civil War, the Union was able to overcome the Confederacy because of its military advantages. Both sides in the war had certain positive and negative characteristics in fighting the war. However the balance of power helped the Union more than the Confederacy. The North had better ways of transportation then the South like more railroads and roads. The North also had more people than the South that they could draft to the army. However the Nhad a less well trained generals then the South had and some of the generals went to join the South. The South had to defend their land which in war is easier than invading new land like the North will have to. People in the South had

“Both sides grasped the value of trenches, which provided defenders protection against withering rifle fire.” (Boyer 438). Besides just having to defend their land from the North, the South also was more determined to win the war. “Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war.” (Sherman). Having the whole South and troops who want to fight and are willing to fight war will help them over having to draft soldiers who don’t want to fight or be in a battle. Being determined when your opponents are not can cause you to win battles that you were not expected to because the South’s soldiers will fight harder than the North’s army. A negative the South had to deal with was they were reliant on trade because they heavily farmed and the Anaconda plan which cut off trade. “ The plan called for the Union to blockade the southern coastline and to thrust, like a snake, down the Mississippi.” (Boyer 439). Without the trade to Europe the South will run out of supplies and have no one to trade with and no factories to make the supplies they need because they are so heavily farming dependent. With supplies cut off and no way to get more the South will have no other option but to run out of supplies fighting and

Both sides had their advantages and disadvantages but one side had to come out notorious either the North destroying the confederacy and ending slavery or the confederacy win and keeping slavery. One major factor to the end result of the war was the railroads the North had over the South. “The Civil War was the first of the ‘railroad wars’ in a military sense, and the Northern railway nexus enabled the Federal government to switch troops back and forth between the Eastern and Western theaters of action with a facility the South could never match” (Catton 395). The North dominated the South with its railroads systems creating a big advantage for the North and even better that the South did not have nearly as many. Another important turning point for the North was the Battle of Gettysburg, Boyer states that the Union Army stood on the defensive against the determined attack of their Confederate foes and when Lee withdrew his army he lost seventeen generals and over one-third of his army (451). One of the South’s main advantages over the North was that they just had to defend their land from the Union’s army, but the Union was able to flip the role and have the Confederacy attack the Union who was set up in a good defence and win the battle. The Union’s defence was so well set up that the Confederacy lost a majority of their army and caused the Union