Since release, the Union has just been getting decimated, especially at Burnside bridge. The following is my experience from playing both sides, and may be a contributing factor to current Union woes.
1. The Confederates have much better organization. They have good Officers and teamwork oriented soldiers. The only thing they seem to be lacking is good NCO's, but that will come with time in my opinion.
2. The Union just seems to be generally and consistently disorganized every single round. The Officers are either just playing cause they like the pistol, or they are a 12 year old squeaker shouting orders in a child's voice, and consequently nobody listens.... I mean who could blame them.
3. Union doesn't seem to utilize their ticket amounts. They have the tickets, but I consistently see rounds ending in Confederate victories with the Union having 120+ tickets remaining. There is never any real massive organized effort to attack, reform, attack again, divide into company's of 7-8 men and make organized assaults. I mean look at Burnside bridge, it's a gaggle of union soldiers standing on one side just firing over the heads of the confederates at the other side of the bridge never really doing anything. They usually make a few charges, but never any follow up.