To restore the Union, and retrieve the cotton revenues.
To reunite the states and get the cotton revenues back.
To restore the Union, and retrieve the cotton revenues.
To restore the Union, and retrieve the cotton revenues.
To get renforcement.
To gain official recognition as a sovereign nation. They could claim that they didn't want a war.
At the beginning of the Civil War the northern goal was simply to restore the Union at all costs. Slavery became the main issue in the following years of the war but the goal at the start was to save the Union!
Secure control of the Mississippi, thus further isolating the South.
The major goal of the Confederacy was independence from the United States. The North, the US, had the main goal of ending the Southern rebellion and restoring the Confederate states back into the Union.
Equality for all men; abolish slavery.
Lincoln said that he acted to preserve the Union. Although he later decided to free the slaves in the South, it was not his stated motive for seeking to disband the Confederacy.Restore the Union.
There are no minutes in a goal.
To liberate the Mississippi, isolate all Confederate units to the West of the river, and then head East to come to the aid of the Army of the Cumberland.