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Why - because it had industrial manufacturing capability, and a much bigger population from which to recruit armies.

How - by appointing U.S. Grant as General-in-Chief, who was well-suited to a long war of attrition. He ended the system of prisomer-exchange, and then more-or-less just waited till the Confederates ran out of manpower.

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