WHY THE NORTH WON THE CIVIL WAR

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WHY THE NORTH WON THE CIVIL WAR
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Manpower

• Northern State Advantage
• Norths Population Advantage
• Offsetting Factors

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Daunting Manpower Differentials
Number Of States Popula-tion Men of Mili-tary Age Served, 1861-65
North 23 21 million 4 million 50 (2 million)
South 11 9 million 1 million 90 (900,000)
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Strategic Factors

• Souths Psychological Advantage
• Souths Defensive Tactics
• Norths Garrisoning of Captured Southern Cities
• Overall Impact

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Southern Military Tradition

• Training of White Males
• Impact

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Military Leadership

• Souths Initial Advantage
• Explanation General Winfield Scott, head of US
  Armed Forces, 1840s-50s
• Impact on North
• Irrelevant in Long Term

General Winfield Scott
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Presidential Leadership I

• Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy
• 2 Formative Experiences
• Character Traits

Jefferson Davis
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Presidential Leadership II

• Abraham Lincoln
• Character Traits
• Not Infallible
• Praise from Colleagues
• Overall Assessment

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Industrial Production

• Commanding Northern Advantage
• Fatal Link Between Slavery and Cotton
• Retarded Industrialization
• Little Manufactured in South

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Transportation

• Commanding Northern Advantage
• Why Few Southern Railroads?
• Defects of Railroads
• Impact

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Diplomacy The Path to a Confederate Victory

• 2 Possible Ways of Achieving Southern Victory
• Succession of Early Northern Military Disasters
• Foreign Influence Intervention of an European
  Power

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King Cotton Theory

• Importance of Cotton as an US Export
• Assumption Britain would Break Northern Blockade
  to Guarantee Flow of Cotton
• Strategy of Victory Through King Cotton

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What Doomed King Cotton?

• Northern Grain vs. Southern Cotton
• Unexpected Reaction of Britains Factory Workers
• Unable to Demonstrate an Ability to Maintain
  Independence

Harvesting Northern Grain