Mobilization of the Union and Confederacy

The Ken Burn's movie touched on that one reason why the Union and Confederate armies were able to gain support for their armies was due to organization within local communities in addition to the transformation to a wartime economy by both the North and the South. For the North, the war effort was driven by the industrialization of Northern cities, which not only produced weapons for war but created jobs for Northern citizens as well. However, the South's economy was based on the exports and imports they received for their agricultural products. Because the South's economy was not as domesticated as the North's, the North was able to blockade southern ports in an effort to freeze the southern economy. This is the result of the total war tactics employed by Union generals. This tactic was at the forefront of the Anaconda Plan, originally conceptualized by Winfield Scott.