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Industrial power includes raw materials (coal, iron, salt, niter, oil, copper, tin) and the factories to produce weapons, clothing, equipment, train engines, rails, and munitions. Southern factories were insignificant in comparison to the production capacities of factories of the North. Northern factories were already producing shoes, clothing, rails, and locomotives and were able to respond quickly to making these items available to the Union armies. Other factories were able to convert to producing weapons or weapons components very quickly. The Northern industrial base was capable of manufacturing every item (no matter how insignificant) needed to sustain an army in the field. From the onset, Southern factories were undermanned and overwhelmed early by wartime production demands. Although building an impressive capacity with limited resources, the Confederacy continually struggled.