National unions differed from local unions in that national unions represented the interests of laborers and workers from all over the country, as opposed to a specific region.
To give individual states greater control over how to spend federal money
Their plan was called the Anaconda plan.
They wanted to blockade the Southern coast to prevent them from receiving resources from other countries. They also wanted to capture the Mississippi River to effectively cut the Confederacy in half (Battle of Vicksburg). The final step in their plan was to capture the Confederate capital city (Richmond).
A plague killing him and his two sons
