BCF CH 19-20

Battling

Politics

Antietam

McClellan fought against Lincoln

Commanders

Confederate leaders had good leadership and fighting skills

Union leaders less cohesive - McClellan

The Union suffered many casualties

Confederates lost less than 5,000

Confederates winning in the West

Burnside replaces McClellan

Other Battles

Mud March: Army of the Potomac unsuccessful

Stones River: Army of TN "win" against copperhead

Hooker replaces Burnside

Hooker improved morale: food, corruption, and sanitation

Sickness declined, desertion rates dropped

Battle of Fredericksburg: Lee defeated Burnside

Army of the Tennessee: Grant

Army of Northern Virginia: Lee

Army of the Potomac: Burnside

Chase v Seward

The fire in the rear

Lincoln's fear of the northwest Democrats (dissension of union democrats

Peace Democrats

Vallandigham

restore the Union through peace and negotiation

believed the Republicans caused the war and ruining the Union

suspension of habeas corpus and the debt and taxes made things worse

Butternut identity

Talk of a Northwest Confederacy

National Banking Act of1863

established a system of national charters for banks, encouraged development of a national currency, raised money for the government by forcing banks to buy war bonds

alienated western Democrats

Enrollment Act of 1863

Democratic policy

rich could get out of the draft

volunteering was worse than being drafted because it cost more

poor families starved without breadwinners

every plantation with twenty or more slaves could exempt one white man

Not good response

Benjamin Butler: tried to drop Confederate morale by freeing slaves and strategy to take away largest "commodity"

Mackenzie Howie - HIST 235 - 15 March 2019