History

Malachi Velazquez

3 July, 23:35

What were the South's two main military strategies at the beginning of the war?

preserve its small armies while doing enough damage to erode the Union's will to fight

destroy northern railroad lines and raise an army of enslaved African American soldiers

mass troops in northern Virginia and capture Washington, D. C., to force a quick Union surrender

blockade Union ports along the Mississippi River and capture border states