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Because so many of the best officers in the pre-war U.S. Army were Southerners.
Richard MontgomeryRobert E. Lee was the commanding general for the Confederacy and Ulysses S. Grant was the commanding general for the Union.
At the start of the Civil War, Winfield Scott was the Commanding General of the Union Army.
At the onset of the US Civil War, 322 US Naval officers resigned their commissions to take positions in the Confederacy.
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Winfield Scott served a s Commanding General at the start of the war. It was his Anaconda Plan which served as the grand strategy to defeat the Confederacy.
During the Civil War, the Confederacy tried to secede from the Union.
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