The Civil War: North and South

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             Other reasons that the South lost the war was the fact that the North had a huge advantage when it came to the economy, the way that the South fought the war military strategy wise, their poor foreign policy. They also lacked a strong leader in the mold of the North's Abraham Lincoln and their constitution as they had it set up concentrated too much on Sate and individual rights and not enough on the Federal side of things. Over the course of this essay I will go into detail on how these factors led to the down fall of the Confederacy and their cause. At the beginning of the war both the North and the South were not prepared for a long drawn out conflict. This would make it seem like both sides came into the war on an even level. That is just not the case , because it might be true that the North was not ready for a war but they had all the things that they need in order to quickly get into the grove of things, whereas, the South just did not have the needed resources. When the war broke out the North had an advantage of production wealth on the order of at least three to one, that number includes the value that they placed on "their" slaves. On top of that the majority of the banking was handled in the North which meant that the majority of the money that resided in the banks was in the North on the order of four to one. Furthermore, the South had but a fraction of the annually manufactured products, ten to one, also they had less then proportional share of the national income. What also compounded the issue was that the South had but a third of the railroad mileage that was in the United States and a fraction of the total registered shipping.
             The limitation that the South faced economically was tremendous; the North owned the production wealth of the Nation which gave them the ability to rapidly produce whatever they need to fight the war. That meant that if they needed to produce more guns, cannons, shoes, railroads, whatever they could; furthermore, the fact that they had most of the capital that meant that they could afford to do so.