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Four less states to fight. Four more states to supply them with troops and war supplies. It meant the campaigns would be fought over a smaller area - the Middle and Deep South, mostly not the Upper South.

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The Border States gave the Union following strategic advantages:

Maryland prevented Washington from being encircled by an hostile territory and secured the control over the Chesapeake Bay.

Missouri secured the control of the Mississippi from Iowa border up to Cairo.

Kentucky secured the control over the vital Ohio Line from Cairo up to Virginia border, shortening the front and providing the Union with a salient, which gave access to the border of Tennessee and to the Cumberland River, thus allowing Federal penetrations southward.

The exploitation of Border States' railroad net of 3,020 kilometers.

The economic advantages given to the Union by the Border states were:

Industry : 10,257 factories, with a produced value of US 79,078, 612.

Agriculture:

Wheat : hectoliters 9,000,000

Corn: " " 55,000,000

Fat cattle: 1,200,000

Dairy cows: 730,000

Horses: 900,000

Donkey and mules: 300,000

Sheep: 2,500,000

Hogs: 6,000,000

Bank deposit: US $ 18,000,000

Metallic reserves: US $ 11,000,000

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