Question

In which region of the country did the northern forces have the most success

Answer 1

The Union had a lot of advantages close to the Confederacy. The Union had more fighting power, more factories, more food production and a big railroad system which made it possible for them to transport munition and goods to the army.

The Northern Forces had the most success in the West. The Union battles on Pea Ridge in March 1862, In Ft. Donelson in February 1862, in Ft. Henry also in February 1962, and Shiloh in April 1862.

Answer 2

The following is from Yahoo Answers: the Civil War was a civil war in the United States of America. 11 Southern slave states declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the Confederate States of America. led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the U.S. federal government (the "Union"), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states in the north.

in the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. the Republican victory in that election resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. both the outgoing and incoming U.S. administrations rejected secession, regarding it as rebellion.

hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state, leading to declarations of secession by four more Southern slave states. both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. in September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening. Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back at Gettysburg and, in the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg, thereby splitting the Confederacy. long-term Union advantages in men and material were realized in 1864 when Ulysses Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general William Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

the Civil War was the deadliest war in U.S. history, causing 620,000 soldier deaths, and an undetermined number of civilian casualties, ending slavery in the United States, restoring the Union, and strengthening the role of the federal government. the social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877, and brought changes that helped make the country a united superpower.