Confederate Army Compare And Contrast

The Union and Confederate armies fought against each other in the Civil War. This essay is about comparing and contrasting the Union Army and the Confederate Army. The better well supplied Union Army had more factories and soldiers against the Confederate Army who wasn’t as well supplied. The Union Army’s meals consisted of union fare, hardtack or “hard crackers” made with flour, salt and water. Thier meat consisted pork, bacon, or beef. They also ate cornmeal. In lesser amounts they had molasses, salt, pepper, coffee, tea, sugar, rice and hominy. The Confederate Army’s meals consisted of cornmeal for Johnnie cakes and Cush, beef filled with bacon grease.
The plan worked most of the time, except for the fact that the confederates had fewer ships called blockade runners. Most of these ships got through the blockade. If they did they make it through they made lots of money. The Union Navy captured or destroyed 1500 blockade runners. The blockade covered 3500 miles and 180 ports. Most Union soldiers were white from ages 14 to 45. Most Confederate soldiers were under 30. More than half the Confederate soldiers were farmers. Almost half of the Union soldiers were farmers.The Union Army was better supplied than the Confederates. The Union’s population was around 18.5 million people. The Confederate’s population was 5.5 million people and 3.5 million enslaved soldiers. The Union had more money than the Confederates. The Union Army had 2,672,341 soldiers in the Army. The Confederate’s had between 750,000 to 1,227,890. The Union had 101,000 factories, 1.1 million factory workers, and 20,000 miles of railroad. The Confederates had 21,000 factories, 111,000 factory workers, and 9,000 miles of railroad. The Union consisted of 48% farmers, 24% mechanics, 16% laborers, 5% Commercial, 4% miscellaneous, and 3% professional. The confederates consisted of 69% farmers,9% laborers, 5.3% mechanics, 55 commercial, 2.1% professional, and 1.6%