Some of the best officers in the US Army had resigned to join the Confederates.
Big advantage in cavalry - most young men owned at least one horse, and were used to the riding and shooting way of life.
Rank-&-file were poor white trash who actively enjoyed a darn good fight.
The President did not have to face a General Election during the course of the war.
Home ground advantage - both tactically, and in terms of emotive war-mission.
(At the beginning) Prospect of aid from Britain and France.
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the south had few to none advantages and were devasted in all ways at the end of the war.
Simply, it could manufacture all manner of war-supplies, including the latest rifle-barrelled artillery, while the agricultural South was increasingly unable to import anything, because of the Unon Naval blockade.
The south lost the U.S Civil War.
*The civil war *The War between the States
That was called the US Civil War.
The US Civil War
The Civil War.
The civil war.
The Union of the North, and the Confederates of the South fought in the US Civil War.