None.
It had to improvise from the start.
At the beginning of the US Civil War, the small navy and 16,000 troops were all part of the United States. Military personnel were from all of the states and territories. It is true that all the states had small militias controlled by the individual states.And as an aside, the South barely had a central government.
No, the south had few ports and no navy.
No, the south had few ports and no navy.
the south to come back into the union
The North tried to compromis with the South which lead to the south ceceding from the union and beginning the civil war
The firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Their only goal was to keep slavery.
To repel the Northern invasion.
Support from a European partner with a genuine Navy.
This is a matter of opinion, but the South probably had the better generals at the start of the Civil War.
During the US Civil War, the US had a much larger navy than the Confederacy. One advantage of this was that it was at a problem for the South when Northern warships blockaded Southern ports.
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