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What made the size of the Confederacy a military problem for the Union?
ChuckSiata
The sheer size of the Southern territory created a military problem for the Union. As the North had to force the South to surrender in order to end their rebellion, it required that Union forces captured and occupied key places in the South. With that said, the more land the Union captured, the more troops it needed to guard it. Then, the farther Union troops advanced, the longer and more insecure became their lines of communication. Added to that problem was the fact that the Union armies were operating in hostile territory. The Union, however, created their own difficult situations. The war was not always "popular" among the Northerners. It became a political problem to draft or enlist more soldiers, as it needed. The more Union casualties, the stronger was the Northern peace projects.
The fact is that the problems of communications was due in part by not having enough soldiers.
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