Southern strategies
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- Their strategy was to take advantage of their compact geography, with internal lines of communication, their military heritage, and their greater enthusiasm for their cause to wear down the Union will to wage war.
- They also believed the Britain, with its heavy dependence on Southern cotton to supply its mills, would be at worst neutral with a bias in their favor, and they dreamed of direct European assistance.
- Their specific strategies included privateering in the Atlantic to harass New England merchants with ships such as the Alabama and to put pressure on Washington DC, whose city limits fronted on the Confederate state of Virginia.
- The over-all strategy was to want it more than the union.