The free labor north wielded weightier resources than the slave labor south, the North’s immense Civil War task, however, bade fair to outweigh the section’s larger power. If the Confederacy could have marshalled all the slave labor states’ people and resources, free labor states might have been insufficiently richer, especially in manpower, to afford the Union’s costly strategy to complex its difficult conquest. (William W. Freehling) The slave south’s land mass, as large as Western Europe’s and 10 percent more extensive than the north’s, required Yankees troops to trudge thousands of miles, to storm hundreds of fortifications, to expose themselves ever farther from the north’s better railroads and factories. Throughout the Civil War, Northerners
