"Whipping out a bigger checkbook won't win the war" (Jonathan Parshall). This video looks at the various political and military strategies that Union leaders came up with in order to defeat the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Through examining their assumptions, goals and actual execution, we can begin to understand A) why the Union took so long to win despite their resource advantages, and B) how they ultimately did so.

Army numbers, positions and campaign paths are for illustrative purposes (or else Northern Virginia would have been a right mess).

Updated Version by History Marche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk-ynHH4VwE
The Parshall video in question (about the Battle of Midway 1942): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sqt4-ux9jU (35:18)

SCRIPT: https://strategosstuff.blogspot.com/2020/05/script-union-strategy-during-american.html

All errors are my own. I apologize for the bad sound quality.

▬ CHAPTERS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Start
0:13 - Union Material Advantages
0:41 - 1860-1861 (Winfield Scott)
2:35 - 1862 (McClellan)
5:17 - 1863 (Halleck)
8:51 - 1864-5 (Grant)
11:01 - Conclusions

▬ SOURCES ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Stoker D. The Grand Design. Oxford University Press 2010.
Esposito V (ed.). The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War. Tess Press 1991.

▬ ATTRIBUTIONS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Wikipedia/Google (Dates, 1860 Rail Network, Quotes)

Made using Powerpoint 2013.