Weaknesses:
Disadvantage in cavalry.
Lack of an emotive mission.
Slow-moving Henry Halleck as General-in-Chief.
Bad draft-law that allowed men to pay substitutes.
Fighting mostly on unfamiliar terrain.
Strengths:
Advantage in artillery.
Access to plentiful recruits.
Access to all kinds of war-supplies.
President who eventually learned to choose good Generals.
Appointment of U.S. Grant to top job in final year.
he was commanding the union army
There were at times several Union armies operating in the Eastern Theater of the US Civil War. The main one was the Army of the Potomac. Other Union armies in the east were the Army of the James, and the Army of Virginia.
Confederate army was the name. They were also called Rebels too.
Army of the Potomac
The Union Army. wasn't it the Union Arny?
no the Union army defeats the confederate army
The Union's Army of the James was given a key task by General US Grant in 1864. As part of Grant's Overland campaign, the Army of the James was to land on the Virginia coast and destroy Southern railroads and capture either Petersburg or Richmond. The leadership of this army was the key weakness. General Butler had been a political appointee and the two major divisions of his army were USMA engineers but had no real leadership experience.
The Union Army.
The Union Army was the Northern army during the American Civil War. The Union Army fought and defeated the Confederate States (Southern) Army in 1865.
he was commanding the union army
they were the leading commanders (ones who decided what the army did) of the union army the union army was made up of the states who did not secede
The Union Army was coming from the south.
Union Army of the Shenandoah was created in 1861.
There were at times several Union armies operating in the Eastern Theater of the US Civil War. The main one was the Army of the Potomac. Other Union armies in the east were the Army of the James, and the Army of Virginia.
Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Army.
who was the us officer that rejoined the union army
No, Him and his troops attacked the Union Army