Week 5- Advantage

Having just finished talking about the Civil War, I want to talk a bit about the tactics that each side took during the war. The North were naturally more aggressive because they had more military power, and people. The South were engaging in more of a defensive battle because they were trying to focus on retaining their lands and rights, instead of imposing their will on the North. So with their fundamental strategy aside, what kind of battles did they fight? Well, looking at the Battle of Gettysburg will certainly give you a wrong impression of who was the aggressor. Southern General Lee tried to take the attacking route and invaded the North. At first, it seemed to work. They did not quite take the North by surprise, but they managed to get good a good attack on them. But this is where the advantage of the North lay, I think. Since they had a massive population relative to the South, including all the land to the west, even though they were caught slightly off guard, they could provide a sufficient enough stand, until their reinforcements could come. I also think they were smarter militarily because they started to use the geography to their advantage. All these things, showed that the North, from the beginning, had an advantage. They always had the ability to recover,even when the South had the surprised.