i have a civil war question?

Question

did the north have better tactics than the south because there are more bears and deer in the north so they hunted more?and did the north know more about guns than the south? or was it just the tons of men the union had. because i know the south had very smart officers. but i mean soldiers. in your opinion which team had better soldiers. please explain. thanks

Answer 1

They could out fight and shoot the north 10 to1 but it was more like 150 to 1 just vastly out numberd

Answer 2

The South had many advantages over the North:

1. Better generals
2. Better Cavalry
3. Better sharpshooters
4. Better Plans
5. Dedicated Purpose from Day 1 to defend their agrarian lifestyle and their plantar class society.

The North had these advantages which would ultimately over whelm the South
1. A definite advantage in the manpower size though this does not necessarily equate to better soldiers
2. Definitely more industrial strength , more railroads and more developed navy as the blockade began to cripple and slowly strangulate the South.
3.The North did not always have a killer mentality but only to maintain the status quo. After the battle of Antietam,and the Emancipation Proclamation on September 21, 1862, a political but a definite motivator changed the Northern attitude and purpose that they were fighting the war for truth and righteousness and the end of the demonic institution of slavery.
4.Because the South was limited in manpower and materials, they had to go on the defensive and hope for a stalemate but when the North insisted on unconditional surrender as a nickname for Grant indicated, the South's time was inevitably limited, unless there was a tragedy or miracle for the South to gain the upper hand.
5 The North could be considered more united because of their style of a centralized government or the power of individual states especially in war time.

Answer 3

The north and south utilized just about the same tactics, as the manuals such as Scott's Tactics, Hardee's, and Casey's all were derived from the same base. No geographic region hunted more than another, as game was used by most economic classes to eat. Both sides had smart officers, as the nucleus of both sides were trained at West Point (the south having more by percentage after sessesion), but the north had many more men to throw into the fray, as well as the factories and machinery to crank out more weapons, clothing, etc. There is probably no real way to know which side had better soldiers, as that is very subjective and both sides shared bravery, honor, and were fighting for reasons they strongly believed in. It is universally recognized by historians that the north won by shear might and numbers.

Answer 4

I would say that the North definitely did not have better tactics than the South. What the North did have was more resources available to them, and more industry. The South was essentially agricultural, so when they were placed in the position of waiting out a siege, they were not actually equipped to stay self-sufficient. So they decided to go on the offensive, which was a particularly bad idea, since the North by this time had superior numbers and a much better-fed army. Tactics weren't the issue here, not really. I think it was more a function of desperation.

Answer 5

For some reason, your reasoning is backwards. There were more Union soldiers killed by Confederate than there were Confederates killed by Union forces. There are no more bears in the North than in the South, here they are all over. The same is true of the deer as the white tailed deer is called the Virginia White tail. The north was highly industrialized; the south was agrarian.

Answer 6

i think the south had more dedicated soldiers as they were fighting for freedom and the north was just fighting to preserve the union but as far as better i think they would be about equal in terms of quality. I'm sure both sides had their share of brave soldiers and cowards a like. the real reason for the north winning is they had a navy which cut the souths supply lines and they were able to produce more weapons and had many more men than the south. also they had better artillery pieces with which to fight a battle. man for man they were about equal with maybe a slight edge going to the southern soldiers.

Answer 7

Actually, the south had better soldiers in my opinion for those reason you cited. there were lots more wooded areas and animals in the south. The south basically lost because of one bad decision: the decision to move into the northern territory. if the south had stayed on the defensive, who really knows what might have happened.

Answer 8

I'm pretty sure they weren't referred to as 'teams'. But anyway, the north won because they effectively cut off the supply lines to the south. There was much more industry/manufacturing in the north, which gave them better resources, ultimately leading to their winning of the war.