What is the difference between confederate and union army?

Answer 1

Fundamentally, there was very little difference in organization, equipment, training, or tactical doctrine. Initially, both armies were composed of volunteers, with substantial portions of their officer corps coming from the professional officer corps of the pre-war Regular Army.

Over time, the Union army used more and more drafted soldiers, while the Confederate one remained effectively all-volunteer. Additionally, the Union army benefited from having access (in small numbers) to advanced rifles, like the Sharps and Henry repeating rifles. However, there was no significant difference in overall technology between the two sides, and weapons were either identical, or comparable.

As the war dragged on, the Confederate armies began to suffer from significant shortages of supplies - they had difficulty obtaining enough arms, ammunition, clothes, and food, so they generally were of poorer quality than those of the Union. Confederate forces were thus often ill-fed, poorly-clothed, and with fewer weapons than their Union opponents.

The Confederate armies usually had better morale than the Union ones, mostly due to poorer leadership amongst the Union side.

All of these things didn't matter too much - the Civil War was generally fought between two sides with armies that were mostly identical in composition. The Union won for a simple reason: they could heavily out-produce the Confederacy, replacing both lost soldiers and equipment that the Confederacy couldn't. Once the Union produced leadership that recognized this fact, the Union strategy was simply to overwhelm the Confederates - disregard casualties and losses, since while a lost soldier to the Confederate armies was one that would never be replaced, a similar loss to the Union armies was one that would be quickly replaced.

Answer 2

The North wanted to force the south to rejoin the union and to keep the union together. The north was split in the want of ending slavery and containing it in the south and not letting it move into territories in the west.

The south's goal was to be left alone and let them be their own country. The south of course wanted to preserve slavery. Though interesting enough, the south's newly written constitution include the outlawing of importing slaves from foreign lands.

Answer 3

The Union army had more troops and better rifles.

The Confederates were better led and had higher morale.

The Union army was the North and believe slavery was wrong

The confederates was the south and believed in slavery

Answer 4

Largely one of supply and morale.

the union troops had regular supplies of food , equipment , ammunition and clothing.

The confederates did not have such a good supply system and quiet often soldiers would use the muskets they bought from home.

The union also had much better access to technological developments and factories so they were able to develop more technology such as repeating rifles , Gatling guns and some interesting developments in cannon and shot.

What the Confederacy had in spades was Morale , good leadership and a high esprit de corp. They had several good victories for a large part of the war whist the Union were plagued by indecisive generals, poor leadership and many losses in battles they should have easily one.

Otherwise, confederate means joined by an agreement or treaty and Union means the action or fact of being joined.

Answer 5

The goals of the Civil War changed for the Union from 1861 to 1863. Initially the war was fought to preserve the union of the states and to unite all the states under the Federal government. By 1863, the Government's goals were expanded to include the elimination of slavery of and the freeing of any slaves in the Confederate states.

The Confederate Government ( CSA) goal remained the same, to separate from the Union and to establish an independent government. The CSA fought to keep the Union invaders out of their territories and to force the Federal Government to negotiate for peace and settle for the separation of the two regions of the United States under two governments.

Answer 6

Given that the majority of the officers had been part of the US military, the uniforms were pretty much identical when it came to insignia, style and cut.

For the most part the Union uniforms were blue while the Confederates were gray, both colors were used on both sides. It was on of the reasons the Unit flags were so important so that there was no confusion about what unit was on which side.

Answer 7

They are different colors and kind of a different style too. The Union's uniforms were a little bit of a better quality then the Confederate's uiforms, but not by much.

Answer 8

Union = North

Confederate = South

duhhh

Answer 9

Confederate-Southern Solider. Fighting for the CSA Confederate states of America

Union-Not Seceded State (United States)