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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.

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