Union (North):
- Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860, and was later re-elected in 1864 (he ran as a Unionist rather than a Republican for his second term).
- Prominent Union Generals include: Ulysses Grant, George McClellan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph "Fighter Joe" H.ooker, George Meade, and Ambrose E. Burnside.
- The Union had a population of 22 million people.
- 1.1 million people worked in factories in the north.
- 20,000 miles of railroad.
- Major Union victories: Fort Henry & Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Antietam, Perryville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Petersburg, Appomattox.
Confederacy (South):
- Dates of Succession in order:
- South Carolina - Dec. 20th, 1860
- Mississippi - Jan. 9th, 1861
- Florida - Jan. 10th, 1861
- Alabama - Jan. 11th, 1861
- Georgia - Jan. 19th, 1861
- Louisiana - Jan. 26th, 1861
- Texas - Feb. 1st, 1861
- Virginia - Apr. 17th, 1861
- Arkansas - May 6th, 1861
- North Carolina - May 20th, 1861
- Tennessee - Jun. 8th, 1861
- Jefferson Davis, former US Senator and Secretary of War, was the President of the Confederacy.
- Prominent Generals in the Confederacy: Robert E. Lee, Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, P.G.T. Beauregard, and Joseph Johnston.
- Population of 9 million people, 3.5 million of that 9 million were enslaved.
- Only 111,000 people worked in factories.
- 9,000 miles of railroad.
- Major Confederate victories: Fort Sumter, First Bull Run, Seven Days Battle, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor.
