1. Chapter 11 Civil War

2. Ft. Sumter

3. Important People
USA CSA
Lincoln- president J. Davis- president

4. Generals
U.S Grant R.E Lee

5. Lee or Grant

6. T. Sherman Stonewall Jackson

7. Grant and Sherman

8. Sherman’s Legacy

9. UNION ADVANTAGES 23 states were in Union vs. 11 Confederate states.
Population was 22 million in North vs. 9 million in the South.
Army had almost 3 million in Union, 1.5 million in the South.
Food production.

10. Almost all of the manufacturing capacity was in the North.
Most of the railroads were in Northern territory.
The North had a great leader in Lincoln
Larger navy

11. CONFEDERATE ADVANTAGES
South could adopt a defensive strategy—a tie would win for them if the North became tired of fighting.
The South tended to be more emotional and unified about the war. Defending family and home.

12. Several groups in the North did not support the war. (Copperheads)
Southerners, particularly the upper class, were better prepared for soldiering.
The South had superior military leadership.

13. Southern Strategy Play a defensive war.
Make the war drag on until the North gets tired and quits.
Gain foreign support.

15. Northern Strategy Three part plan. (Anaconda Plan)
1. Blockade Southern ports
2. Control the MS River and divide
the South.
3. Take the Confederate capital,
Richmond, VA.

17. Antietam

18. Major Battles Fort Sumter, SC- First shots of the war.
Bull Run- First major battle. Confederate victory.
Seven Days Battle- More than 36,000 men died. Richmond was saved. Confederate victory.
2nd Battle of Bull Run- Union Army was pushed out of Virginia. Confederate victory

19. Battle at Antietam- Single bloodiest one day battle. 25,000 men died
Battle at Antietam- Single bloodiest one day battle. 25,000 men died. Union victory
Battle of Shiloh- Helped Union forces gain control of the MS River Valley. Union victory.
Battle of New Orleans- Union admiral Farragut gains control of the mouth of the MS River.
Battle at Vicksburg- US Grant took the last major fort on the MS River. Union victory, now controls the river.

20. Vicksburg

21. Chancellorsville- Stonewall Jackson was accidentally killed by his own troops.
Battle at Gettysburg- 51,000 men lost their lives. Lee lost 1/3 of his army. Confederate invasion was stopped. Turning point of the war. Union victory
Wilderness Campaign- Grant kept attacking Lee trying to take Richmond. Grant failed to take Richmond but, Lee lost a lot of his men and supplies. Confederate victories but, took huge loses.

22. Chancellorsville, Stonewall’s Death

23. After the Emancipation Proclamation

24. Gettysburg Address

25. Sherman’s march through the South- waged total war, making life hard on civilians as well as the army. Destroyed everything in his path. Burned crops, houses, and killed all animals.

26. Sherman’s March

27. Atlanta

28. Bull Run

29. Antietam

30. Gettysburg

31. Gettysburg (Devil’s Den)

33. Battle of Mobile Bay

35. Mobile Bay, Spanish Ft., and Blakely Ft.

36. Siege of Fort Blakely

38. Admiral Raphael Semmes

39. African Americans in Arms
54TH Massachusetts – 1ST black regiment in the US Army. Led by white officers and paid less than white soldiers. Fought very bravely and showed they were equal to white soldiers.

42. The End of the War
April 9TH 1865, Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Courthouse. Lee surrendered the Army of Virginia.
That ended the major Confederate force. Smaller forces continued to fight for a short time longer.
Almost 620,000 men lost their lives.
Millions of dollars in land destroyed.

44. Surrender at Appomattox

45. Terms to know
Copperheads- Northern and Western Democrats who opposed abolition and was sympathetic to the South.
Habeas Corpus- Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
Emancipation Proclamation- Order issued by Lincoln that freed slaves in areas still in rebellion. Did not free all slaves. Meant to get support from Britain and France.

46. Civil War Counter-Terrorism
Copperheads

47. Winston County, Alabama
A poor county with no slaves in it. Did not want Alabama to secede.
Met at Loony’s Tavern and voted to secede from Alabama.
Citizens fought on both sides of the war.

49. Clara Barton “Angel of the Battlefield”- Helped take care of wounded soldiers, often during battles. Helped start the Red Cross.
Winston County, Alabama- Poor county in Alabama that did not agree with secession and claimed neutrality. Angered the Confederates.

50. Prison Camps Thousands of men on both sides died in prison camps.
Andersonville, GA- Thousands of Union soldiers died because of starvation, lack of water, no shelter, and disease. 30,000 prisoners were kept in an area built for 10,000.

51. Andersonville

53. Fort Pillow

55. New War Technology
Rifling in gun barrels allowed for minnie balls to shoot straighter and further.
Minnie balls were similar to today’s bullets.
Breach loading rifles. Can shoot numerous times in a row.
Gatlin Gun- A repeating gun close to a machine gun.
Ironclads- metal battleships
Submarine as a weapon.

56. Civil War Tech

57. Gatlin Gun

58. Ironclads
Monitor v. Virginia “Merrimack”

59. Confederate Submarine, Hunley

61. https://mcpss. discoveryeducation

62. Odd and interesting
Civil War facts

63. Black Confederates

64. Black slave owners

65. "Woman's Order,“ #28
Following the Battle of New Orleans, many of the city's inhabitants were strongly hostile to the Federal government, and many women in particular expressed this contempt by insulting Union troops.
On May 15, General Butler issued an order to the effect that any woman insulting or showing contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States should be treated as a woman of the town "plying her avocation" -

66. meaning soliciting of prostitution
meaning soliciting of prostitution. it permitted soldiers to not treat women performing such acts as ladies. If a woman punched a soldier, for example, he could punch her back.[2] Known as the "Woman's Order," it nonetheless was very controversial women throughout New Orleans interpreted it as Butler legalizing rape. Butler was removed from command of New Orleans on December 16, 1862.

68. Civil War, General Stonewall Jackson walked around with his right hand in the air to balance the blood in his body? Because he was right-handed, he thought that his right hand was getting more blood than his left, and so by raising his hand, he’d allow the excess blood to run into his left hand. He also never ate food that tasted good, because he assumed that anything that tasted good was completely unhealthy.

69. War begins and ends in McLean family home.

70. Brigadier General Micah Jenkins
Believed he had a sacred sword. It had been shot in a couple of battles, saving his life. He believed as long as he had his sword, he could not be killed by Union bullets. He should have been killed numerous times. One night while on patrol, he picked up a Union flag that had been dropped. While riding back to camp, he was mistaken for a Union soldier and was shot and killed by one of his own men.