Why the North won and the South lost the US Civil War?

Answer 1

Gettysburg ruined the South! Serves those Johnny Rebs right, they deserved it! because the north had better high ground and they had a lot more amount of people to fight for them. Grant's victory over Pemberton (a Pennsylvanian who chose to wear the uniform of a Confederate general) at Vicksburg is considered the most decisive battle by some historians because it split the South in two, completing one part of General Scott's three-part plan for strangling the South. [Efforts to capture Richmond were botched by General McClellan, and the US Navy blocade was only 2/3 successful.] Gettysburg was a three-day battle. Lee did well enough on the first two days, but he lost on the third day, more to Meade's subordinates than to Meade himself. Pemberton abandoned Vicksburg to Grant on the third day of Gettysburg, and Northern newspapers concentrated on Gettysburg instead. [In World War II, General Clark had his thunder stolen in a similar manner as he let a German army escape so he could capture Rome for its Propaganda value, but it was all for naught because it coincided with Eisenhower's invasion of Normandy. Like the Seige of Vicksburg, the Italian Campaign had dragged on slowly. Like Gettysburg, the Normandy Invasion was new and exciting in the public consciousness. Unlike Vicksburg, Rome had no strategic value.] Also, note that Pemberton was disliked and distrusted by other Confederate generals because he was born in the North, yet he held Vicksburg until it became indefensible before withdrawing his army. To answer the original question, the South actually won most of the large battles, but Vicksburg was decisive for its strategic value, and Gettysburg was a fantastic Northern propaganda victory. It dissolved any chance that a British army would attack the North from Canada, and a French army would arise from Mexico to reinforce the South.

Answer 2

The North won chiefly because it had a much bigger population from which to recruit armies (it ended up as a war of attrition), and also an industrial manufacturing base.

The South lost because the natural aggression of the Southerner often emerged in the form of violent feuds between Confederate Generals, who were not properly controlled by President Jefferson Davis. Also their ports were blockaded, preventing them from exchanging their cotton for war supplies.