Confederacy Strategies In The Civil War

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Variety of strategies was been used in the Civil war by both Union and Confederacy. In which Confederacy had basic goal of defending North and at the end making them give up. Whereas Union was seen using its strengths of industries, transportation, and great leader Lincoln. Union had poor militarism and as war goes on, it’s seen how some of the Union leader fail miserably. On another side, it’s been seen that how confederacy gets effected by losing its soldiers, due to lesser population.
During the Civil War of United States, Great Britain and France was seen playing significate role. Due to the continuous demand of cotton in Europe, South the ‘King Cotton’ used their crop as tactic to gain an aid from Europe. Where on other side North had

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