The American Civil War 1 The War In The East 1861 May 1863 Essential Histories > urlin.us/24qfo
ced5a5f5e9 States and local communities offered higher and higher cash bonuses for white volunteers. Income per person in the South dropped to less than 40 percent of that of the North, a condition that lasted until well into the 20th century. 15881. OCLC68283123. From a tiny frontier force in 1860, the Union and Confederate armies had grown into the "largest and most efficient armies in the world" within a few years. Cotton diplomacy proved a failure as Europe had a surplus of cotton, while the 186062 crop failures in Europe made the North's grain exports of critical importance. This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. ISBN978-0-19-502926-0. ^ McPherson 1988, pp.355, 494496, 495. Jubal A.
^ Foner 1981, p.?. (1991). (2009). See also, Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the Civil War (1989). Retrieved August 18, 2014. McPherson, James M. ^ McPherson 1988, p.24. Grant, who won victories at Forts Henry and Donelson (by which the Union seized control of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers); the Battle of Shiloh;[153] and the Battle of Vicksburg,[154] which cemented Union control of the Mississippi River and is considered one of the turning points of the war. The blockade shut down the ten Confederate seaports with railheads that moved almost all the cotton, especially New Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston.
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