Union won because of industrialization and a naval blockade. Southern baws had more heart and better strategy.

Good soldiers on both sides but Union had poor commanders besides Grant and Sherman while the South had a bunch of good commanders.

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Posted by Ham And Glass

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Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:26 pm to red sox fan 13

Anaconda Plan. Dissolution of Dix-Hill agreement. Money. Perceived moral high ground. Industrial base. Expendable immigrants.

Realize I didn’t answer. Edit to say I’m not sure.

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Posted by RockChalkTiger

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Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:31 pm to red sox fan 13

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the South had a bunch of good commanders.

Braxton Bragg says “hold my beer.”

Starting a war you have no chance of winning is not good strategy.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 4/4/20 at 7:47 pm to red sox fan 13

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Southern baws had more heart

There was certainly a lot of truth to the whole suggestion that the average Confederate was worth about 7 Yankees - that was likely pretty close in 1861 and, maybe, into 1862. But, by 1863, it was much closer to even.

And Yankee generals got better (meaning the terrible generals they started the war off kept getting fired and eventually replaced with better generals).

But, wars aren't really won on the battlefield, they're just fought there. Wars are won on the farms producing food, factories producing guns, arms, boots, ammunition, etc. And the Yanks produced more than they could use.

By the Spring of 1865, the Union Army had more troops in Colored regiments than the Confederate Army had in all regiments.

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Posted by KiwiHead

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Posted on 4/4/20 at 9:23 pm to red sox fan 13

Initially the North had a bunch of frictards running the war whenit realized Winfield Scott was too old and Robert E.Lee was not going to take it. But once they got Grant in charge in the West, they knew they had something special because he would fight.

The South should have rethought things as soon as it realized that the North was going to keep Kentucky and therefore control all of the Ohio River which also meant they could now send barges of men and material to Nashville and as far south as Muscle Shoals, AL. When your enemy can drop 65,000 troops into the center of your territory, it is over.

If Shiloh and Nashville were not enough, when Farragut races past those forts South of New Orleans and trains all of his cannon on the New Orleans levees it was really over then.

The rest was just gratuitous slaughter for the hell of it.

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Posted by PhillyFan1994

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Posted on 4/5/20 at 3:24 am to red sox fan 13