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
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