federal property in the seceded states (Brinkley
             382). Over 2 million men served in the Union military forces during the Civil War. In 1861 at the beginning of the
             war the union army consisted of 16,000 troops. Lincoln called for the increase in 23,000 soldiers in the regular army,
             but the bulk of the fighting, he knew, would have to be done by th!
             The South had a whole different approach to the War. It did not follow the North's offensive motion, the South took
             more of a defensive approach. Edwin C. Bearss feels, "If the South were to win, it had to win
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