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Reading Response #13: Battle Cry of Freedom Ch. 19-20 (Ch. 19: Three…
Reading Response #13: Battle Cry of Freedom Ch. 19-20
Ch. 19: Three Rivers in Winter, 1862-1863
McClellan's downfalls at Antietam did not sway Lincoln's expectation that the Army of the Potomac would be going back after the rebels
Lincoln was growing tired of McClellan, and his inability to aggressively go after Lee and his army
Eventually, the Army of the Potomac began to cross the Potomac river, but it just was not enough, and Linclon fired McClellan, and replaced him with Burnside
Burnside considered himself unfit to command the Army of the Potomac, even considering his successes in the east
"The battle of Fredericksburg on December 13 once again pitted great valor in the Union ranks and mismanagement by the commanders against stout fighting and effective generalship on the confederate side" (571)
At the end of the battle, the Union army had experienced on of its worst defeats, this defeat brought the horrors of the war much closer to northerns than any other battle had before
"Soldiers wrote home that 'my loyalty is growing weak....I am sick and tired of disaster and the fools that bring disaster upon us....All think Virginia is not worth such a loss of life....Why not confess we are worsted, and come to an agreement?'" (574)
Rumors in Washington began to spread, including that the cabinet would resign and be replaced by democrats, Lincoln would resign and be replaced by Hannibal Hamlin, McClellan would be called to head a military government, or radical republicans were planning a coup to reorganize the cabinet (574)
Stone River brought a short span of success to the North
Discord in the Army of the Potomac came to a peak during the "Mud March" (584)
General grant had a drinking problem according to many complaints that came up at the time, Lincoln did not seem to mind
Ch. 20: Fire in the Rear
Lincoln feared for the democracy more than their military struggles
On February 25, 1863, National Banking Act is made law. Established the national banking system
Vallandigham, an Ohio politician and leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War, was exiled by Lincoln, and proceeded to run a campaign for governor in Ohio
Chart on Pg. 608 may conclude that the white-collar class was not represented in the army, but it is untrue because most of the soldiers were too young to have yet become successful in white collar business
Democrats took advantage of the idea that the war was a rich man versus poor man war during the elections
class conflict took over the South. in the North, conscription worsened the friction
Women and children suffered in cities and on farms due to the war
Displeased with the war and the government, riots occurred within southern towns. also came from food crisis
"Cotton was the great corrupter of the Civil War; as a Confederate general noted, it made 'more damn rascals on both sides than anything else.'" (625)