During the course of the US Civil War, it can be said with a good degree of certainty that each side were equal when it came to strategy. It should be noted that the commanders in the South and in the North were for the most part West Point graduates and used the skills learned there during the war.
Having the better industry, as well as a largely effective naval blockade against the Confederacy, the Union had much better weaponry available to them. Some of it was captured by the Confederacy, but not nearly enough the compensate for the industrial abilities of the Union states.
the union didThe Union had better manufacturing, hands down.
The Union had a major advantage over the Confederacy because the Union had; Bigger armies, better iron production, better army production, and better banking.
The North was more industrialized than the South.
It was part of the Confederacy - and therefore not the Union.
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It didn't. The Confederacy was the government formed by those states attempting to leave the Union. The two were at war. Michael Montagne Actually, the Union did depend on the Confederacy. With out the confederacy's contributions to the war and *mistakes* the Union would have never won.