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With Confederate Braxton Bragg in Kentucky, he tried a political maneuver to help Kentuckians to join the Confederacy. At the capital of Frankfort, Kentucky, Bragg staged a ceremony to inaugurate a Confederate governor of Kentucky. If successful, he would have the leverage required to gain more recruits for the Rebel army. The "stunt" failed and any celebrations were short as Union General Don Carlos Buell was close by with his army.
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What was the war strategy for the south?
The overall strategy of the Confederacy was to fight the war on the defensive.The South had no desire or intention to impose it's political will on the North,to conquer and then occupy the North. In the words on Confederate President Jefferson Davis..."all we want is to be let(left) alone". The South simply wanted its' independence. The Confederacy hoped to win enough battles and to survive long enough to bring about agreeable terms of peace.
What was the south strategy to win the war?
The south didn't win the Civil War. It was the North (The Union) who beat the South (The Confederacy)
Cutting the Confederacy from east and west and north and south was the Union strategy of?
Divide and conquer
What was General Scott's strategy of cutting the Confederacy from east and west and north and south?
Divide and Conquer
What are the strategies of the union and the confederacy?
Narrowed down to the basics, each side had a grand strategy. For the North, they had to use their military power to crush the rebellion. In the South the grand strategy was to make it costly in lives and money to continue fighting the South. The Confederacy's grand strategy centered around defense.The North's based on offensive.
Population of slaves in south during civil war?
ANSWER In the Confederacy : 3,024,745; in the Border States (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland) 312,473
Which south region state was not a member of the confederacy?
The state in the South that was not a member of the Confederacy is Kentucky. Although it was a slave state, Kentucky remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War and was officially neutral at the war's outset. Its strategic location and resources made it significant for both Union and Confederate forces, but it never seceded from the Union.
What type of warship consumed most of the naval strategy of the Confederacy?
Building ironclads consumed most of the South's naval efforts.
What did the north call its strategy to defeat the south by forming a naval blockade and by capturing the Mississippi river?
The Anaconda Plan - constricting the life out of the Confederacy
Did the north or the south get the name confederacy?
The south was known as the confederacy.
What was the basic assumption behind the Union's strategy of simultaneous advances into the South?
The Union's strategy of simultaneous advances had the assumption that the Confederacy could not meet every invasion the Union created effectively. This was due to the disparity in the number of troops the South had in comparison to the North.
Who was part of the confederacy?
Arizona,Alabama,Arkansas,Texas,Mississippi,georgia,florida,kentucky,missouri, Tennese,south carolina,north carolina,virginia,
