Inventions were made in all kinds of machinery to increase the products of a day's labor in the shop, and in the field.
In the South no opposition was allowed to the government which had been set up and which would have become real and respected if the rebellion had been successful.

No rear had to be protected.

All the troops in service could be brought to the front to contest every inch of ground threatened with invasion.

The press of the South, like the people who remained at home, were loyal to the Southern cause.
In the North, the country, the towns and the cities presented about the same appearance they do in time of peace.

The furnace was in blast, the shops were filled with workmen, the fields were cultivated, not only to supply the population of the North and the troops invading the South, but to ship abroad to pay a part of the expense of the war.