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Reading Response #11 (Battle Cry of Freedom Ch. 15: Billy Yank's…
Reading Response #11
Battle Cry of Freedom Ch. 15:
Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues
"In May 1862, Prospects for the Confederacy's survival seemed bleak." (454)
Stonewall Jackson was considered top tier, and the hero of the South until Robert E. Lee showed up
Lee gave Jackson the orders to enter the Shenandoah Valley
Jack son was known for having little to no sympathy for soldiers. "If a mans face was as white as cotton and his pulse so low you could scarcely feel it, he looked upon him merely as an inefficient soldier and rode off impatiently." (456)
Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign is still used as an example of of how speed and use of terrain compensated for his inferior number of soldiers
The Army of the Potomac was not demoralized after Chickahominy, but McClellan was
Seven Days war casualties equaled the number of casualities in all the battles in the then western us during the first half of 1862
Seven Days war set a precedent for harder fighting with more casualties during the war
The immense amount of dead and injured left on battle fields led to a truce between the two sides to bury the dead and succor the wounded
Civil led to a transformation in nursing from a "menial service to a genuine profession" (484)
Sickness ran rampant among soldiers
The failure of McClellan's Peninsula campaign led to the new goal of the union army, not to preserve the union, but to destroy in and build a new one from what remained (489)
Battle Cry of Freedom Ch. 16:
We Must Free the Slaves of Be Ourselves Subdued
Lee's successes in the Seven Days Army led him to major popularity and respect from the South
If McClellans campaign had been successful, the war could have ended, and the South would have never experiences the level of destruction that it did
The North had to increase its recruiting power, it did not institute a draft
Abolitionist influence was growing
If slaves were to be freed, the north would covert their labor power to support the union
"Anti-Black Sentiments were not a Democratic Monopoly" (507)
Lincoln's solution to the anti-black sentiment was not to allow them to be among the white population, but instead to "send them off and colonize them." (508)
Most black people of influence in the north openly denounced Lincoln's proposal
The government though was able to recruit a few hundred prospective black immigrants. they were able to settle them on an island near Haiti, but the experiment resulted in food shortage, and disease
The southern forces eventually receded southward again, giving Lincoln the victory he needed to announce the Emancipation Proclamation