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Union:

The costly task of doing the invading

Mostly operating in unfamiliar terrain

Absence of an emotive war-mission

Many Generals were politicians-in-uniform

Bad draft law, encouraging bounty-jumpers

No cavalry tradition

Prospect of European nations helping the enemy

Prospect of a Presidential election in mid-war

Confederates:

Virtually no industrial manufacturing base

No access to new rifle-barrelled artillery

Much smaller population from which to recruit armies

Less railroad mileage for troop transport

Violent feuding between Generals

Unable to export or import, due to blockade

President who was out of his depth

Currency not backed by assets, only by a promise of victory

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