One advantage of the South(Confederacy) over the North(Union during the Civil War was?

Question

THe Civil War and Reconstruction

Answer 1

The only advantage I can think of, is not intentional, or manufactured one but the very fact we were fighting in our own land. That allowed us familiarization to back roads, short cuts and most of all people tend to fight harder over their homes, friends and family.

God Bless You and Our Southern People.

Answer 2

The souths biggest advantages was It's great people who were willing to fight and lose their lives for freedom.
It also was fighting a defensive war on it's on land which gave it more incintitive to fight.
The south had the best leadership. Most union military leaders were trained southerners who switched to the confederacy.
Southern women immediately came ot the aid of confederates troops in making uniforms,flags, medical care and other worthy causes. (most union mills were staffed by indentured or enslaved white children(both sexes) who rarely lived beyound their 15 birthday due to the hardshps they suffered)


Southern troops were more accustomed to hardships than union. Many thousands of union troops were new arrival immigrants who had never seen a gun. Entire ship loads were unloaded into military service.

The south had several advantages but lack of a industral base doomed it. They had several chances and officers blew that one. The biggest blunder was even getting into the war without an industral base, The had not manufacturing base at all and even though oput the war the planter society kept it out.
The second blunder was Lee's decision to go ahead and count Union force with his mens lives at gettysburg. That was a move the south could not afford. We lost 36,500 men in three days of fighting. the union lost 34,500 in the same 3 days, but as we left the field of battle they were given the victory. It was a loss of man power , and material we could not afford but one the union could well afford.
Grant was cornered between two rivers in tennessee. had the southern command push on on him it would have been all over, but General Sidney Albert Johnson died there and they stopped to honor him and his replacement made a bad decision to rest his men and gave the union time to regroup. with much needed supplies and fresh menpower the sounthern armies did not have.
The third bluunder was the battle of Battle of Chickamauga in which Confederate failed to follow up on their victory and run down the fleeing union army. This gave the union time to bring in fresh troops and supplies. something the confederates did not have. Had the confederates kept the feds on the run out of Chattanooga lincoln would have lost the last election and the war would have ended with two nations. this would have meant a better world for all of us.

Answer 3

Because of the Southern agrarian economy probably more people had the opportunity to own their own farms and provide for their families better than the industrial based North. But the cancer of slavery undercut any real democratic advantages.

Answer 4

Home Advantage.
17 year-old Draft Age
Independence seeking
General Lee as the commander
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Answer 5

Well the South had better trained troops during the war.

Answer 6

The Confederacy's biggest advantage was that it didn't have to conquer its enemy; it just had to avoid being conquered. Thus, they could fight a defensive war, and only need to outlast the Union's will to fight.

Answer 7

War was fought on the South's home turf

Answer 8

The North would lose by not winning, while the South could win by not losing.

Answer 9

waterways -- trained officers