Surprisingly, though the North had a much greater advantage in population and in manufacturing capacity, the South was actually in a superior position at the onset of the war. It had a superior officer corps, and its various state militias were better trained. John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry had alerted the South to the need of a better-trained armed force, and the possibility that it may be needed in the near future.
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The Civil War (1861-1865) The Civil War was fought between the Union (north) and the Confederacy (south). The war was fought mainly about the issue of slavery. The Union eventually won and that is what makes us the United States of America today.
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The base cause of the Civil War was the disparate cultural differences between the North and the South. The South was primarily agrarian and the North was primarily industrial.