In order to wage the Civil War, in the early 1860s, both the Union and the Confederacy mobilized their economies and societies while dealing with home front resistance. While the confederacy used habeas corpus and released unwilling draftees, the Union imposed special taxes on southern sympathizers, suspended habeas corpus and imprisoned southern supporters. All the methods used by them; however, were not that effective since immigrants refused to fight a war that wasn't theirs. Even though the Confederacy showed initiative and daring at the beginning, the Union succeeded by having more effective strategies, greater resources and even better military leaders.
