What were THREE advantages the North and South had in the Civil War?Three each?

Answer 1

South :

better trained officers

a willingness to fight for what they thought was a just cause

empathy for their cause by Northern Politicans who were against the war and against Mr. Lincoln

North :

better manfacturing facilities

better money

a better railroad distribution system

Answer 2

THE NORTH:
I The North had by far the larger population of the two. They
had two thirds of the population of the United States(c 16,000,000) to the South's (c 8,000,000) Also the South had about one third of it's population as black slaves. A very great disadvantage indeed. In fact at the beginning of the war Lincoln began by planning a call up of 75,000 men from each state. The North was able to replace their losses much more easily. Something which came in very handy in the first few years of the war.
II The North had the advantage of industrialisation. It had all the cannon factories, the ship yards and most of the industry. Things very very necissary in war. The South was mainly agricultural. The North was much more wealthy too. Furthermore it was able to maintain a naval blockade of the confederacy during the war.
III After Lincoln issued his decletation to free the slaves the North had the Moral advantage. This gave the Northerners the added impetus of having some great ideal to fight for. This was especially valueble after the years of defeat.

THE SOUTH:
I The South had better fighting men. They were mostly backwoodsmen and farmers. The type who were familiar with firearms and tough enough. Whilst the Northerners were mostly city folk who were very unused to such. The Southerners were not only skilled in arms but their attitudes and belief system were much more suited to war than were the Northerners. In the continuing years of the war many of the confederates marched and fought with bear feet as they could not be supplied with new boots. But despite the fact that they came from a less wealthy(the confederate money has become a byword for worthless currency) and far less industrialised and rescourced society, they fought on and on only stopping when their leaders surrendered. There were no riots like the one in New York against the draft.
II The South had far better leaders than the North. The North had fools like fighting Joe Hooker who boasted that God had better have mercy on General Lee as he would not. Hooker was subsequently smashed. The South had generals like Stonewall Jackson(who stood like a stone wall at Chancellerville), Longstreet(who advised Lee against the disasterous frontal attack at Gettysberg), George Pickett(who gave his name to the perimeter patrols-the pickets), Jeb Stuart who was a brilliant cavalry commander and the greatest general ever to set foot on American soil- ROBERT E LEE. In his tenure of command he commanded what was possibly the the greatest American army in history-The Army of Northern Virginia. Time after time he smashed union army after army. It was only the mistake at Gettysberg and his dwindling rescources that finally brang him down.
III The fact that the confederacy was more spread out. When the Southern armies invaded the North they constituted a major threat on their first invasion. The Northern population fairly compact in cities and a smaller area. When however the North invaded the South, it had to employ massive armies and months and months of extensive campaingns to , divide, devestate and destroy the South. The cities of the North lay before Lee like a ripe plumb. The areas of the North had to be won hard by the campaingns of the likes of Grant's Mississippi campaingn to capture Visberg, Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea, the seige of and capture of Richmond and Grant's eventual recieving of Lee's surrender at Appatomax court house. In fact the confederate president Jefferson Davis was captured as he was on the run to join up with Kirby Smith's army in Texas.

Both North and South had various advantages and disadvantages. The main one was the wealth, industrialisation and population of the North. With such overwhelming advantage it was the North that could revover from it's mistakes of the first years where as the South could not revover from it's ones of the latter years. And there was also the fact of slavery. This was a great advantage to the North(in the ideological and moral advantage) and a great impedement upon the South(in the population and moral areas) For it is a very great disadvantage and danger to go to war with a third of your population in chains. You have to have men guarding them and it takes away in the first instance from your ability to wage war. As general Longstreet said in the movie GETTYSBERG-"We should have freed the slaves first-then fired on fort Summter". Hope this helps.

Answer 3

North
1. Massive industrial production
2. better transportational area==railroads
3. better food supply

South
1. better generals
2. strong resolve=mostly in defense of their land
3. better cavalry