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Civil War: Advantages Of The North And South

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Advantages of the North and South One of the many social advantages that the north had was that they had 21 million people that lived in the 23 Northern states. While in the South they had 9 million people but that doesn’t include the slaves. Despite the North having tons of people to fight in the war the South stood a great chance because of there tactics and how they plan what to do before the battle starts. The North had tons of miles of railroads and everything that they did was basically doubled because of the fact that the trains can carry about 25,000 men or reinforcements to a couple of miles away from the battlefield. The next future of artillery comes with trains the railroads in the north develop new ways of using artillery and

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