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Civil War (The War Starts (The south fired the first shot on Fort Sumter…
Civil War
The War Starts
South Carolina Was First to Succede
The south fired the first shot on Fort Sumter
They fought for states rights
Not because of slavery they would say
Robert E Lee Served his own "country"
Summary of the War
South
10% of Manufacturing and weapon Production
9 Million people with half of them slaves
3% of Railroad miles
Their only navy was the ironclads
The couldn't eat Cotton
North
Had 90% of Manufacturing and Weapon Production
Had 22 Milion
97% of the Railroad Miles
99% of Navy with the Anaconda Plan
Had a big edge on food
Average soldier was 5'8" 145 lbs
Abraham Lincoln
Peoria Speech
His presidency would be nothing without his speches on slavery
President
Started sending supplies to Fort Sumter refused to give up fort
Emergency Powers Washington DC Able to borrow and do whatever he needed to win the war
Put in a war time presidential order Emancipation proclamation
Gettysburg Address his second greatest speech
His greatest speech is his second inaugural address
Got assassinated at a play with his wife
Perspectives
South, Confederate
President of CSA Jefferson Davis
Puts the capital in Richmond Virginia
"Rich mans war a poor man's fight"
Robert E Lee General
Wanted to invade Maryland and attack the capital
Very Conservative
Losing the Civil War destroyed the economy they didn't recover for 100 years
North, Union
U.S. Grant General
Beat the Confederate forces again and again
Lacked competent leaders in Richmond and Maryland
McCullen was good at training troops yet was not good at winning in battle
Made a plan to try and attack Richmond and headed back when he thought they were losing too much
Got Lee's plan and got their first Antietam
Lincoln Fired him because of the poor battlemanship in Antietam
Never lost any ground to the South
Fought war with one hand tied behind their back
Martyrdom
John Brown
Brought slaves up against their owners
Battles
Fort Sumter was first South firing the first shot
Battle at Bull Run, Town of Mananas, Virginia
Yankee troops show up in DC and Maryland never was able to secede lots of sympathizers were against this
Union Soldiers ran from the rebels that were running at them. They went all the way back to DC. Called "The Great Scadattle"
Shiloh
Antietam
Gettysberg
Appomattox
This is when the union cornered the confederates
The surrender of the south was amazing nobody was killed
Biggest battle ever fought
51,000 Casualties
Gettysburg Address
Deadliest day of battle
The weapons had changed from any previous war
Clara Barton wounded in this battle
Gordon shot through the mouth
North was too reserved and the battle ended up being a tie
Fredericksberg Burnside took over for the union and sent tons of soldiers in to die
Chamberlain second in command
12,653 Union soldier casualties and 5,377 Confederate casualties
Hooker took over and attacked both Fredricksberg and Chacellorsville
23,000 Casualties in a two day period
Earned Grant the nickname The Butcher
Grant knew that if they were going to win it had to be total war
This is a war of attrition
Nathan Bedford Forrest was the best Calvary leader of the war
Named after the river they had to cross
Shocked by the causalities this was nothing
Civil Disobedience
Why?