Soldiers on both sides earned 11 dollars a month which was a lot of money in those days.
The North had a big enough navy to blockade the Southern ports and starve the Confederacy of imports.
The Confederacy
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Union
The French and the English did not support the Confederacy during the Civil War. Instead, the countries decided to support the Union.
Soldiers on both sides earned 11 dollars a month which was a lot of money in those days.
The bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Confederates led to the outbreak of the Civil War.
France and Spain
Kentucky was allowed to stay neutral at the beginning - Lincoln was worried about driving it into the arms of the Confederacy.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Union had 19 states, not including the four border states that did not secede. The Confederacy had only 11.
North Carolina was a slave state at the beginning of the Civil War and became a part of the Confederacy.
During the Civil War, the Confederacy had approximately 750,000 soldiers.
The Confederacy as a nation did not exist in 1860.
Confederacy
The Confederacy lost the United States Civil War.The states formed a confederacy. We joined the confederacy.
The Union or Federal forces opposed the Confederacy.
The South.