Civil War Major Battle:1861 As the men and women were joining the armies, the leaders of the both Confederate and Union began to talk about strategies on how they were going to win the war. The strategies for both sides contrasted each other due to the different war aims. The Confederate's strategy, which had to defend itself from the North invasion until the Northerners felt that the war costed to much money and many lives. The Union's strategies, was thought up by the general-in-chief of the US army, Winfield Scott. Scott's plan was to put pressure on the South, by putting a blockage so that they cou