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• 1860 Presidential Election
-S. Democrats (v-p Breckinridge)
-N. Democrats (Douglas -popular sov.)
-Constitutional Union Party
(old Whig, & American Parties)
-Republican (Abraham Lincoln)
• Lincoln - 40% popular / 59% electoral
• 6 weeks - SC secedes from Union 6 others
• GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX
• Feb. 1861 “Confederacy Formed”
Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860
Confederacy Created
• Jefferson Davis (MS)
Montgomery, AL
• Confederate soldiers
occupy Federal offices
& Forts in the South
• What Happens Now?
-Lincoln ‘new’ Pres
• Fort Sumter
(P.G.T. Beauregard)
Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861
Nation Divides for WAR
Nation Divides for WAR
SC
GA
FL
AL
MS
LA
TX
Fort
Sumter
• April 12, 1861
Confederate Troops
fire on Union troops in
Fort Sumter
• April 15th Lincoln calls
for volunteers to
Stop the Rebellion
( Preserve the Union )
• Other States Secede
VA, NC, TN, AR
VA
NC
TN
AR
• April 12, 1861
Confederate Troops
fire on Union troops in
Fort Sumter
• April 15th Lincoln calls
for volunteers to
Stop the Rebellion
( Preserve the Union )
• Other States Secede
VA, NC, TN, AR
• Border Slaves States
remain in the Union
DE, MD, KY, MO
MO
KY
WV
MD
DE
FREE STATES
UNION
CONFEDERACY
• April 12, 1861
Confederate Troops fire
on Union troops in
Fort Sumter
• April 15th Lincoln calls for
volunteers to
Stop the Rebellion
( Preserve the Union )
• Other States Secede
VA, NC, TN, AR
• Border Slaves States
remain in the Union
DE, MD, KY, MO
• Copper Heads –
Southern sympathizers
in North (Border States)
Map Part of Unit Test
MO, KY, MD, DE
AR, TN, NC, VA
SC
TX
MS AL GA
LA
FL
TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, SC
Civil War 1861-1865
CIVIL WAR
Western Campaign
BATTLES
Eastern Campaign
BATTLES
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
“CIVIL WAR”
Western Campaign
BATTLES
Eastern Campaign
BATTLES
1861
Feb - Grant / Tennessee
April - Battle of Shiloh
June - Memphis
- New Orleans
July 4 - Vicksburg Surrenders
Sept - Chickamauga
Nov - Chattanooga
Sherman Attacks Georgia
Sept - Atlanta Captured
* Sherman’s March to the SEA *
1862
July - 1st Battle of Bull Run
March - Monitor v. Merrimac
Aug - 2nd Battle of Bull Run
Sept - Antietam
Dec - Fredericksburg
1863
May - Chancellorsville
July 3 - Gettysburg
1864
March – Grant Eastern Commander
* Lincoln Re-Elected
1865
Grant Wears Down Lee
April - Richmond Surrenders
The Union & Confederacy in 1861
Civil War Strategy
The UNION “Anaconda” Plan
Capture the
capital of the
Confederacy
(Richmond, VA)
Eastern
Campaign
Western
Campaign
Capture the
Mississippi R.
and Split the
Confederacy
Blockade the
Confederacy
and …
STARVE
TO DEATH!
War Strategies
(Union v. Confederate)
• Union - Anaconda Plan
(Three Prong Attack)
1- capture Richmond (capital)
2- capture Mississippi River
3- Blockade the South (starvation)
• South - War of Attrition
fight to make the other side “QUIT”
• 1st Modern Industrial War
– New War Technologies (mass production)
– Trench Warfare
• Means EXTREMELY HIGH CASUALTIES
North vs. South in 1861
North
South
Advantages
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Disadvantages
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Rating the North & the South
Railroad Lines, 1860
Resources:
North &
the South
Men
for Duty
in the
Civil War
Advantage & Disadvantage
• UNION +
• +population 22 mil.
( 3 X fighting men)
• +90% of Factories
• +2/3 Railroads
• +3/4 countries
Financial resource
• +Civil Leadership
• Disadvantages
• -Poor Military
Leadership
• Difficult Strategy
• CONFEDERATE +
• +Defend it’s soil
• +Better Military
Leadership
• +Used to Guns
• +”King Cotton”
• Disadvantages
• -NO factories
• -Less Resources
• -Poor Civil
Leadership