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Attrition.
Grant ended the system of prisoner exchange, knowing that the South, with its much smaller population, would run short of manpower first.
Then he just went on battering away at the Confederate lines till they grew too thin to hold, while Sheridan and Sherman destroyed the rich farmlands that supplied the armies in the field.
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as the civil war draggred on why was the north in better shape then the south to win?
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The whites did not win the civil war. The reds did. the end
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It is possible that at least two inventions not related to way helped the North win the Civil War. The first was the railroad and the other was the McCormick reaper.
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In the civil war, the North was called the Union.
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