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women at war
Louisa May Alcott
work in hospital for Dix
Clara Barton
Washington female clerk
search for missing Union soldiers
president of the American Red Cross
volunteer (not official)
brought supplies for wounded
Dorothea Dix
first Superintendent of Women Nurses
select & assign women to hospitals
general women role
take over
businesses
farms
plantations
Soldiers learn to dig
Indians tactics
Trench Warfare
spade
soldiers dig their own holes
The border states
Lincoln's decision (wanted to save the Union)
Maryland
suppressed newpapers
arrested civilians
imposed martial law
suspended "writ of habeas corpus"
Taney's opinion
President has no right to suspend "
Kentucky
allow Union sentiment to develop
Missouri
seize control
result
states were saved for the Union
Maryland secede
would lost Washington
Missouri & Kentucky secede
border pushed
Illinois might be lost
sides compared
North
more factories, money, crops...
lots of labor-saving sevices
22,000 miles of railroad tracks
use blacks in military
20M people
South
limited crops
cotton
rice
tobacco
labor depended on slaves
9000 railroad tracks
didn't use slaves for war
9M (3.6M slaves)
underestimated North
North called it " the six months' war"
stronger in every way (than South)
attacking army had advantages
improvements
rifle
spinning bullet
accurate aim
longer range
caplock
chemical weapon
enclosed in cap
explode
Importance of railroads
attacking army
carry many supplies
got great advantage from railroad
result
fight aim at enemy's railroads
People's war
almost every family lost a soldiers
newspaper
reporters to the war fields
The war of exhaustion
"Conda"
North's blockade
slowly but surely took away everything south needed
The question of emancipation
Lincoln
focused on the "Union" not "slaves"
to keep the border slave states
refuse to emancipate the slaves