Citizens opened recruiting offices in their hometowns, held rallies, and signed up volunteers 18 and older. Confederates wanted to join. Union had sometimes draft men because of the willingness of wanting to fight. The Confederates had to institute a draft almost a full year prior to the Union, due to the smaller population in the South.
To add to this answer, it should be noted that each state in the South and the North were responsible for raising armies. And, as noted above, both sides were forced to pass conscription laws to fill their armies' ranks.
In theory, the Union, because it already had the administrative structure in place, whereas the Confederates were having to build a government and an army from scratch.
But in practice, the two sides were equally unprepared for a long war, the Union able to muster only 16,000 National Guard, and nothing in the way of weapons or uniforms.
The states are not allowed to raise or keep armies. Only the federal government has the power to keep armies.
General Butler was labeled '' Beast Butler''
The Confederates attacked the Union fort on April 12, 1861.
It was won by the confederates and lost by the union and the port remained under condfederate control for the rest of the war
States in the south that fought with the north during the Civil War. The Confederates wanted slavery, but the Union, or the North, was against it.
The Union was poorly trained just as the Confederates were, and at first both of the armies started equal, with the Confederates quickly getting stronger, then the Union making a comeback.
At Ft. Sumter, Confederates surrounded Union ships. Union was low on supplies, so Lincoln sent a supply ship. Confederates opened fire. 33 hours later, Union armies surrendered. Confederate's victory, and the Civil War began.
For the Confederates, don't issue conflicting orders. (And on the personal side, trust Joe Johnston, not Jeff Davis.) For the Union, don't allow politicians to raise private armies. (And on the personal side, trust Grant and Sherman, not Halleck.)
Answer The "plan" was pretty obvious. The Confederate States wanted to secede from the Union. The Union wanted to fight to hold it together. So the Union had to go into the Confederates States and disarm them and convince them to stop. All the Confederates had to do was to keep the Union armies from moving into their states.
Usually women who were not fighting had fundraisers and raised money for soldier supplies
What branch of government raise and supports Armies
the union armies
The Union armies under Ulysses Grant. The Confederates under John C. Pemberton surrendered the garrison, which was the last Southern stronghold on the Mississippi.
Because of slavery causes and dissagreements between the union and the confederates
After the victory over Confederate forces at Chattanooga in November 1863, President Lincoln was convinced that the Union finally had a general who could crush the Confederates. In March of 1864 Lincoln brought Grant to Washington and gave him command of all Union armies.
The Confederates wanted to keep command of the rail junction at Corinth, and two Union armies were about to combine and come down on them. But the Union commander Grant had told his men to rest easy at Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee river, not knowing there were any Confederates in the area. The Confederates discovered this, and launched a big assault that nearly succeeded in pushing Grant's whole army into the river.
It enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which kept Britain and France out of the war. It meant that the Union armies would only have to face the dwindling numbers of the Confederates alone.