President Abraham Lincoln’s masterful use of the telegraph enabled him to revolutionize the operational aspects of the North’s war strategy, as well as manage public opinion through the media through censorship, resulting in the North’s victory in the Civil War. At the peak of the Industrial
Once again, the Union had the advantage. When the war began, there were 22,000 miles of railroad track in the North and just 9,000 in the South. The telegraph made it so that Abraham Lincoln could communicate on the spot with his officers on the battlefield, an advantage that the south did not have. The Gatling gun had more of an impact after the civil war despite having been made during the war. The Gatling gun was the first firearm to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts.
15.1 What material advantages did the North enjoy as the war began? In most every solid metric, the North had the advantage as war began. They had more railroad miles, more telegraph lines, greater population, greater food production, more ships, and so on. They also had a firm mandate in terms of Lincoln’s resolution to preserve the Union at all costs.
This was advantageous for them because it meant that they could produce their own supplies for the war. The infrastructure was beneficial to them because they had a large, expansive railroad system. Their railroad system allowed them to transport both troops and materials easily from place to place. Their strong infrastructure also included their navy and war equipment. During the war, the Union had a stronger navy and better weapons than the South.
The union had a great advantage for winning the war and without these advantages the war would have probably lasted longer or ended in a victory for the south. One of these advantages would be that it had a lot of industrial factories. this made and gave the union more ready for the war then
The North had an excellent Navy that had the ability to blockade things that were headed to the Southern states. The South desperately needed food, weapons, and ammunition but weren’t able to get their supplies because the North had blockades that stopped the supplies they needed. The North also had gun factories, shipyards, and coal readily available at anytime which puts them at a huge advantage over the South. They had more money and were just more advanced in their industry, which helped them win the civil war.
The final reason the Union won the war over the confederacy is they had much more advanced techology and better thansportation. Since railroads became such an important new technology in the war the Union having a massive railroad to transport troops, medical supplies, and food made it a huge advantage compared to the small railroad the confederacy had. The North also had the telegraph, which was another technological advantage over the South. Some ways the Union used this was that military leaders were able to communicate in real time using the telegraph. They had updated information on enemy troop strengths and
At first, it seemed as though the North had all the advantages to succeed greatly in the Civil War. First, the North had the population advantage, meaning there was more people to fight in the war and to make war materials. Population wise, this was not a war of equals, because the North was vastly superior in size than the South. Also the industrial control alone was a huge advantage that was unmatched by it's Southern enemies, who relied on their soldiers already having possession of the needed materials. Second, the North was wealthier than the South and could finance a war without depending on prospective trade on cash crops.
During the Civil War each side had some advantages and disadvantages. Before the Civil War there was the election of 1860, President Lincoln was elected president. The south knew that Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, so the south seceded from the union. Then there was the attack on Fort Sumter, and the war began. “The war that ensued started at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, and lasted four years”(Confederate.., pg1).
The Union, as a side of the American Civil War had many advantages, disadvantages, strategies, and tactics. They first chose to pursue this war when the Southern states (insert names here) seceded from the Union, and the government wanted to preserve the union and keep all of its states under one government, basically to keep the peace and sort out the regions differences. The Union did not have as many advantages than the Confederacy, but the ones they did have, were more beneficial in the long run. For example, they had factories to produce guns, weapons, other supplies, they also had some border states which grew food. Another advantage was they had more in purely numbers.
Despite the tensions that the telegraphic communication brought about, the resulting system gave Lincoln the power to make decisions about his generals’ activities, thus maximizing the performance of his army. Furthermore, Lincoln used the telegraph to gather information about his generals and gauge their performance in
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).
According to document C it says that the telegraph was one of the most important things in the civil war because you can communicate faster and even the president used it a lot to be specific he had like 1,000 telegraphs during the war. Did you know that in the war there were a lot of dead soldiers? The telegraph may have saved lives by being able to communicate faster. The telegraph is important.
The telegraph’s potential was still widely underappreciated…(Wheeler). This reality makes Lincoln’s embrace of new technology even more remarkable. The Telegraph became a tool of power rand helped Lincoln win the Civil War. The telegraph was so innovative the General-in-Chief took a map into battle because he was so accepting of not being able to communicate quickly. This showed that the telegraph was beginning to change the communications with forces on the battlefield.
The Union had more railroad lines and they had the telegraph system. The telegraph system was a huge advantage for the Union because they could now send messages thousands of miles away in less than a minute. President Abraham Lincoln could now command the Union’s generals in the safety of his own office. The railroad lines gave the Union a big advantage because they could transport resources faster than the Confederate
