The Confederacy had the same goal throughout the war: to incorporate all slave states and secede from the Union, survive, and defend its territory. ... In war, strategy is the large-scale way that military power is used in service of political goals.Their strategy was to take advantage of their compact geography, with internal lines of communication, their military heritage (Southerners had been disproportionately the officers of the United States Army), and their greater enthusiasm for their cause to wear down the Union will to wage war.
