16. Technology: Mines. telegraph, repeating rifles, railroads. Even though they had machine guns and submarines, those did not have that big of an impact.
17. Lack of cooperation from Confederate states and their governors to the central government. It was a states rights thing, you know.
18. The Union's population and economy.
19. The Union Navy's ability to strike whenever and wherever along Confederate coasts and deep into the interior via rivers.
20. Confederate commerce raiders impact on the North's commerce. At one point practically swept Northern commerce from the oceans. Huge increase in insurance rates and reflagging ships to foreign countries.
OK. one more. 21. The huge growth of the Union Navy.
This Sure Gets You To Thinking. --Old Secesh
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