Some of the best officers of the US Army had resigned to join the Confederates.
Traditional advantage in cavalry - most young Southerners could ride and shoot
More soldierlike breed - aggressive kind of people
Home-ground advantage - with the stronger war-mission that goes with it: to defend the homeland against the invader.
Their President did not have to face an election in mid-war
(At the beginning) Prospect of recognition and military aid from Britain and France.
Florida gave the states of the Confederacy some cash to help purchase necessities of war.
England did not provide any large-scale assistance to the Confederacy during the Civil War. Blockade-runners did manage to ship some cotton to Britain and smuggle weapons and ammunition into the Confederacy, but England remained neutral throughout the conflict.
the Gettysburg address, Amanclumation Proclamation Confederacy serenading Lincolns assassination and others
He was President of the Confederacy. He had hoped to be General-in-Chief instead, and tried to combine the two roles. He was out of his depth in both, not able to control either his cabinet or his Generals.
During the US Civil War, some people in the Union favored the Southern cause for independence.Many of these people lived in the so-called "Border States". Slaveholders in Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland were often known for being sympathetic to the Confederacy.
Because the confederacy believed in slavery and the union did not. We northerners or we southerners did not like that we wanted are way only. So if this helps your welcome. Oh and the union won + Abe Lincoln was president during that time period.
The Confederacy used the Slaves as some of their soldiers during the Civil War, while the Union was opposed to the whole idea of slavery. :) WOOOOOOOTTTTTTT
to start off, the American Civil War was Americans against Americans.The Union/North's advantages: had more railroads:used to transport troops and weapons, larger population to fight for themThe Confederates/South's advantages: most of the war was fought in the South so they knew the land well and they were fighing for their families and homes, they had better war leaders
No, Missouri was not officially part of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. However, the state was a border state with divided loyalties. Some Missourians fought on both sides of the conflict.
The Confederacy was a group of southern states in the US which, prior to the Civil War, practiced slavery, and which attempted in the mid 19th century to secede from the US, but which were defeated in the resulting civil war (which also brought an end to the practice of legal slavery - some forms of illegal slavery still persist).
The South did not completely secede from the United States as a whole, rather parts of it seceded at different time periods. Some states had already seceded a year before the founding of the Confederacy in 1861.
During the American Civil War, the Confederacy had some distinctive resources to bring to bear for the sake of achieving victory. For one thing, they had a large number of experienced and well-trained officers, with many of the ordinary soldiers able to boast of excellent gunnery skills. For another thing, they had access to large groups of labor (the Southern slaves) who could be forced to contribute to the war-effort in support tasks without taking away any soldiers from active-duty roles.