More people lived in the North, more industry, more railroads, and the Union had a Navy, the South had a few small ships also almost half the population of the south of were blacks and why would they fight against the Union.
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Actually, the Union was at a great disadvantage at the outset of the Civil War. Many of the strongest forts were in the south or on confederate controlled land. It didn't take long for the confederates to isolate and starve out, ultimately taking the forts.
John B. Ford was Secretary of War (1857-1860) under James Buchanan. Ford issued orders in late 1860/ early 1861 which sent the majority of the Union Army to the western frontier on several actual and pretended Indian campaigns. It wasn't until late 1861 or early 1862 that the army knew about the outbreak of the war, and it was months later that they finally received orders from Secretary of War Simon Cameron to come to the defense of the nation.
Isaac Toucey was Secretary of the Navy (1857-1860) under James Buchanan. Toucey issued orders in late 1860/ early 1861 which sent the majority of the Union Navy to the Mediterranean and North Seas and West Africa on pretended anti-piracy and anti-conscription patrols. Most of the Navy, at the time, received communications from other ships when they made port, or messages left in the port by other ships. Most of the Union Navy was on its way home months after the April shelling of Fort Sumter.
When the ships of the Union Navy arrived home they found many of the important ports blockaded by the confederate Navy. In many ways, the confederate Navy was trapped between Union forts and the Union Navy, making them useless for a period of time.
The advantages of the Union were the size of the Army that they were able to assemble, the ability to feed an army in the field, the size and efficiency of the railroads, the ability to move troops from one area to another quickly, and the size and production of the industrial might of the North.
The Union had an economy based on industry and agriculture, so it could produce and replace its own artillery and its own food. However, the South had no industry, so instead of making it's artillery, it would buy it from Europe. However, it would eventually run out. Also, the Union had more people than the Confederacy.
Britain supplied them with weapons. And they won!
The advantages that the union army had while fighting in the Civil War were (1) the Union had more manpower, (2) the Union had more factories, and (3) the Union had a better railroad system.
higher population
The Union held the advantage by a wide margin.
More men - and a cool commander who was suited to a long campaign of attrition, which it certainly was.
The Union did not plan the Civil War. No one planned it.
The Union navy had naval superiority during the Civil War.
which side was supported by the soviet union during this civil war
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The Union.
The Union held the advantage by a wide margin.
The fact that the Union won the Civil War saved the Union.
The civil war was the name of the war?
The Union Army had more people in the start of the Civil War, also they has rail roads The Confederacy had better generals and was better at fighting Hoped this helped ;)
union won the civil war
the Civil War had an advantage of a free nation
More men - and a cool commander who was suited to a long campaign of attrition, which it certainly was.
Yes the union did win the American Civil War. This is the reason we only have one America.
The winner of the civil war was The Union or the North
during the civil war washington D.c was the capital of the union