Here the Union armada would be put to the test with epic battles against the lesser yet scrappy Rebel boats. The Union, with it’s superiority in the naval department would have no trouble sailing up and down the Mississippi until they reached Vicksburg and the other Southern ports of call. The South could not afford to build an impressive naval armada and did well with what it had to work with, even by Northern standards. The economy of the Confederacy, although quite impressive in it’s own right, was not the mass-industrial giant of the North. The South had cotton and slaves, some tobacco and determination. In the Union economy, there was an impressive population of skilled workers and an industrial juggernaut that was transformed almost overnight from a strictly commercial endeavor to a war-machine that could supply an enormous army for years. The economies of both the North and the South were vastly different. The Confederates never assembled an armada or a small fleet that could challenge the Unions superior naval position. The Union Navy was a well-designed and well-maintained naval force and completely ruled the seas and the rivers during the Civil War.
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