the problem of equipping and training them(Chamberlin 18). The states recruited volunteers and organized them into regiments. Officers were elected by the men and commissioned by the governors(19). In the beginning the length of service was usually short, but as soon as it became apparent that the war was not going to come to an end anytime soon, they changed the term on enlistment to three years(Military). As the troupes were trained, they were sent to various parts of the country. The Northern troupes were sent to either Washington D.C. or stationed along the Ohio River(Military). In the South, the troupes were mainly concentrated in Tennessee or Virginia where they could threaten the Capital. Men flooded into armies in both the North and the South. Both sides discussed strategies that they believed would help them to achieve victory (Nash 508). The strategies that each side developed were much different from each other because their goals in the war varied considerably. The South had seceded and desired to create a news nation. Therefore, they had only to defend themselves and wait until the North had tired itself out (Nash 515). The North, on the other hand, had to attempt to restore the Union. This meant that they had to convince the Confederates that they had no hopes in seceding from the Union and forming a new nation. Northern armies would have to invade the Confederacy, destroy its capacity to wage war, and destroy the will of the Confederates to resist the Union (Military). The Confederacy could win the war by merely prolonging the war until the point that the Union would find the war too costly in lives and money to continue fighting. This was much like the way that the colonists in the Revolutionary War defeated a seemingly much stronger power by dragging the war out and exhausting the British will to win (Military). The stage was set for war, and it looked as though it would favor the South.Lincoln and the Nor...
