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The Civil War: 1861-1865
I. Union War Strategy
A. Initial attempts to win the war in Virginia failed miserably (Bull
Run, Peninsula Campaign, Vicksburg, Chancellorsville)
B. Later, the war developed into four phases: strategy geared more
toward attrition
1. Strangle the South by blockading its coasts – Anaconda Plan
2. Control the Mississippi River to cut the Confederacy in half.
3. Devastate the South by cutting a swath through GA and then
sending troops North through the Carolinas.
4. Capture Richmond by annihilating the remaining Confederate
armies.
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Northern Advantages
A. Population of 22 million (including border states); 800,000
immigrants between 1861-63
1. South only had 9 million people including 3.5 million slaves
2. Union Army’s numerical advantages over Lee were 3 to 2 or
even 3 to 1
3. 20% of Union Army foreign-born.
B. Union had 3/4 of the nation’s wealth
-- Overwhelming superiority in manufacturing, shipping, and
banking.
C. North had 3/4 of nation’s railroads and could easily repair and
replace rails
D. Union controlled the sea through its blockade of Southern ports.
E. Ideal of Union aroused North against South; “Union Forever”
1. Significant in keeping border states & upper Mississippi
states from seceding.
2. Cry for Union gave North strong moral issue until
emancipation of slaves was added to it later.
F. Much better logistical planning in the army and weaponry
Southern Generals
1. Robert E. Lee: one of greatest military leaders in U.S. history
a. Ironically, opposed to slavery and spoke against secession
in Jan. 1861
b. Lincoln had offered Lee command of the Union armies but
Lee decided to protect his native Virginia after she seceded.
2. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
-- Lee’s chief lieutenant and premier cavalry officer.
3. Top Union generals in the east were inept during first 3 years
of the war until replaced the more able generals from the west
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II. Civil War begins, 1861
A. Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) -- July 21, 1861 (30 southwest of
Washington, D.C.)
1. First major land battle of the Civil War
2. By summer 1861, Northern public pressure demanded a quick
decisive victory
3. During battle, Union forces near victory but reinforcements from
the Shenandoah Valley led by "Stonewall" Jackson surprised
fatigued Union forces.
4. By mid-afternoon, Union forces in full retreat back towards
Washington, D.C.
5. Casualties: Union lost 2,896 men; Confederates lost 1,982
6. Psychological impact:
a. North realized it was in for a long and bloody war.
b. South grew complacent; many deserters--felt war was over.
-- Southern enlistments fell off sharply and preparations for a
long war relaxed.
Trent Affair (1861)
a. Union warship north of Cuba stopped a British ship en route
to England and apprehended 2 Confederate diplomats
(James Mason & John Slidell)
-- U.S. captain erred; should have brought ship to port for
proper judgment.
b. Northerners, who were desperate for a victory, celebrated
i. Had not yet won any important military victories.
ii. If the two envoys had reached England, the Union
blockade may have been broken if Confederates could
get British & French assistance.
iii. Saw it as poetic justice; British had impressed U.S.
sailors before the War of 1812.
c. In response, Britain prepared for war against the U.S.; sent
troops to Canada.
d. Lincoln decided reluctantly to release Mason & Slidell
-- Did not want to fight a second war
d. Charles Francis Adams, American minister in London
i. Responsible for preventing official British recognition of
the Confederacy and cultivating favorable AngloAmerican relations.
Raising Armies: North and South
A. Northern troops
1. Initially northern armies comprised of volunteers with each
state given a quota based on population. Comprised 90% of
Union army.
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2. 1863, Congress passed first-ever federal conscription law in
U.S. history.
a. Purpose: To make up for fewer numbers of volunteers.
b. Policy unfair as wealthier youth could hire substitutes for
$300.
3. Draft most hated in Democratic strongholds of North
-- New York Draft Riot in 1863 sparked by IrishAmericans (against blacks) that resulted in nearly 500 lives
lost and many buildings burned.
4. Large bounties for enlistment also offered by federal, state, &
local authorities
5. About 200,000 deserters of all classes in North; South similar
B. South initially relied on volunteers
1. Smaller population meant numbers troops smaller
2. Confederacy forced to conscript men between ages of 17 &
50 as early as April, 1862; a year earlier than the Union.
3. Rich men could hire substitutes or purchase exemption.
4. Mountain whites refused to enlist
C. African-American soldiers in the North.
1. About 180,000 blacks served in the Union armies; about 10%
of total Union enlistments; 38,000 died
-- Most came from slave states but many came from freesoil North as well.
2. Black volunteers initially rejected.
a. Initial war aim not to end slavery (but preserve the Union
b. Many whites overcome by racism and fear in arming
blacks
3. 1862, need for soldiers and emancipation opened door to
black volunteers
4. Lincoln later claimed the Union’s victory was largely due to
impact of the black regiments.
D. Confederacy did not enlist slaves until a month before the war
ended.
1. Thousands forced into labor battalions, building fortifications,
supplying armies, and other war-connected activities.
2. Slaves kept the southern farms going while the southern white
men fought.
3. Ironically, slaves didn’t revolt back home (despite learning of
emancipation proclamation).
4. Many abandoned plantations when Union armies arrived.
Financial aspect to the Civil War
A. Raising money in the North
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1. First income tax in nation’s history; relatively small but still
raised millions
 Paid for 2/3 of the war’s cost
2. Excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol substantially increased by
Congress.
3. Morrill Tariff Act of 1861 -- Raised low Tariff of 1857 about
10%
a. About the level of the Walker Tariff of 1846
b. Tariff rates later raised significantly due to demands of
revenue and protection during war.
c. Protective tariff came to be associated with Republicans for
next 70 years.
4. Greenbacks
a. About $450 million issued at face value to replace gold.
b. Supported by gold; value determined by nation’s credit
c. Though fluctuating during the war, they held value well after
Union victory
National Banking System authorized by Congress in 1863
a. Designed to establish standard bank-note currency.
-- At the time, North flooded with depreciated “rag money”
issued by unreliable bankers.
b. Sold gov’t bonds.
c. Banks that joined the National Banking System could buy
bonds and issue sound paper money backed by the system.
d. The first national bank since Jackson killed the BUS
-- Lasted 50 years until the Federal Reserve System (1913)
Southern finances
1. Biggest source of revenue: printed large amounts of paper
money
a. “Runaway inflation” as treasury cranked out more than $1
billion
b. Inflation of currency coupled with tax on farm produce
worked until the end of the war for the Confederacy.
Westward movement
a. Homestead Act of 1862
i. Provided free land to pioneers heading to unsettled lands
out west.
ii. Many pioneers headed west to escape the draft.
iii. By 1865, 20,000 settlers had moved west.
b. Gold seekers (NV, CA) -- would later constitute a formidable
mining frontier with the completion of the transcontinental
railroad.
c. Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
i. Each state received 30,000 acres of public lands for each
senator and congressman in Congress.
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ii. Profits from sale of lands financed agricultural and
mechanical colleges in each state.
iii. Southern states who rejoined the Union enjoyed the same
terms
d. Pacific Railway Act (1863) -- established a transcontinental
railroad to be built connecting northern states and territories to
California.
5. Only Northern industry to suffer was overseas shipping due to
Confederate commerce-raiders.
Lincoln and civil liberties
A. As a war-time President Lincoln bent the Constitution and
suspended certain civil liberties
1. Motive: Saving the Union required circumventing some areas of
Constitution.
2. Congress generally accepted or approved Lincoln’s acts.
3. Suspension of liberties not total but more than any other period
of U.S. history.
4. Lincoln believed civil liberties would be restored once the
Union was preserved.
B. Blockade proclaimed when Congress not in session shortly after
Fort Sumter.
-- Action later upheld by Supreme Court.
C. Increased size of federal army and navy (without Congressional
Approval)
1. Constitution states only Congress could do this
2. Later approved by Congress who actually increased
appropriations and the size of the army.
D. Extended volunteer enlistment to three years (without
Congressional approval)
E. Directed his sec. of treasury to advanced $2 million to three private
citizens for military purposes (without Congressional approval)
F. Suspended writ of habeas corpus so that anti-Unionists could be
arrested.
1. Ex Parte Merriman, 1861:Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that
habeas corpus could only be set aside by Congress
a. 864 people held without trial during first nine months of the
war
b. Lincoln ignored Taney’s report and took no action.
c. Significance: During crisis of wartime, the President could
bend the law for the welfare of the country, including
suspending the Court’s authority.
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2. In 1863, Congress approved Lincoln’s action
3. After 1862, arrests increased: spies, smugglers, blockade-runners
and foreigners.
G. Arranged for Union Army to oversee voting in Border States
-- Voters holding colored ballot indicating party preference had to
walk between two lines of armed troops. Intimidation?
H. Federal officials also suspended certain newspapers and the arrest
of their editors for obstructing the Union war cause.
I. Signed a bill outlawing slavery in all the national territories even
though it conflicted with the Dred Scott decision
J. Generally, civil liberties and constitutional rights were respected
during war.
-- Few political opponents were arrested.
K. Jefferson Davis, unlike Lincoln, unable to exercise arbitrary power
-- South seemed more willing to lose war than surrendering state or
local rights.
Major Themes to Know:
1. Lincoln’s administration and the Republican Party created one of
the most successful economic programs in American history
(after the South seceded):
 Pacific Railway Act (1863)created the transcontinental
railroad by 1869
 Homestead Act (1862) opened millions of acres of land for
free to pioneers
 Morrill Tariff (1861) raised tariffs—a trend that continued
until the 20th century and became a dominant issue in politics
during much of the post-Civil War era.
 National Banking Act (1862) created a new national bank
that would last until 1913
 Morrill Land Grant Act (1862) resulted in agricultural and
mechanical colleges in the west
 First federal income tax in U.S. history (although ended after
the war)
Be able to discuss how these laws paved the way for economic expansion
after the Civil War (during the Gilded Age)
2. Suspension of civil liberties during the Civil War. Be able to
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argue whether or not Lincoln was justified in bending the
Constitution to achieve his war objectives.
The War:
B. General George B. McClellan and the Army of the Potomac
1. Lincoln gave McClellan command of the Army of the Potomac in
late 1861.
2. Fatal flaw: Overcautious; frequently believed he was
outnumbered when in fact he always possessed numerical
advantages; Lincoln became exasperated
III. The Union blockade -- "Anaconda Plan"
A. Initially ineffective; 3,500 miles of coastline too much for
undeveloped Union navy.
B. Concentrated on principal ports and inlets where bulk materials
were loaded
-- Eventually effective against blockade-runners
C. Respected by England; Britain did not want a future war with North
D. Battle of the Ironclads (Hampton Roads, VA, March 1862)
1. Merrimack (C.S.S. Virginia) -- former U.S. warship plated on
sides with old railroad rails; (not really seaworthy); first of the
ironclads
a. Destroyed two wooden ships of Union Navy in Chesapeake
Bay, VA
b. Threatened entire Union fleet blockading Southern ports.
2. Monitor -- Union counterpart to Merrimack built in 100 days
a. 4 hour battle with neither side winning; Monitor withdrew after
Captain wounded; both sides claimed victory.
b. Virginia never again a serious threat and eventually blown up
at Norfolk by Confederates when ship in danger of falling into
Union hands
IV. The War in the Eastern Theater: 1862
A. The Peninsula Campaign (April 5-June 16, 1862)
1. McClellan abandoned a direct frontal assault by land for a
flanking approach to Richmond by moving up the peninsula
between James & York Rivers.
-- After a month's fighting, McClellan pushed within a few miles
of Richmond.
2. Seven Day’s Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862)
a. Robert E. Lee took command of Confederate army.
b. After an unsuccessful battle, McClellan withdrew and later
retreated
c. Robert E. Lee’s first victory over the Union.
3. Peninsula campaign abandoned by Lincoln
-- McClellan removed as commander; replaced by Gen. John
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Pope.
4. Losses: Confederates 20,141; Union 15,849
B. Second Battle of Bull Run (14 July to 30 August)
1. General Pope put in charge of Union army near Washington.
2. Combined forces of Lee, Jackson, & Longstreet forced Yankees
to retreat again.
-- Some blamed McClellan for not coming quickly to Pope’s aid.
3. Casualties: Union 16,054; Confederates 9,197
4. Lincoln once again gave McClellan command of the Army of the
Potomac; Pope removed
C. Antietam (September 17, 1862) -- perhaps most important battle of
the war.
1. Lee invaded Maryland hoping to take it from the Union and
encourage foreign intervention on behalf of the South.
2. Sept. 17 -- Battle of Antietam -- bloodiest day of the war.
a. Ended in a stalemate; Lee withdrew having failed his objective.
b. McClellan should have won with his numerical edge.
b. Removed from command for 2nd time and replaced by Gen.
Ambrose Burnside
c. Casualties: Union 12,401 of 80,000; Confederates 10,700 of
40,000 (over 25%)
3. Considered one of most decisive battles in world history.
a. South never again so near victory
b. Foreign powers decided not to intervene in support of the
South whose military capacity was now questioned in the face
of a unexpectedly powerful Northern army.
c. Lincoln got the "victory" he needed to issue the preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862.
-- Prior, he had not issued the proclamation because the war
was going poorly and issuing the document without a victory
would have made it impotent.
V. The Emancipation Proclamation
A. In 1862, Congress had passed the Confiscation Act:
1. Union Army could confiscate slaves as they invaded the South on
the basis that they were “contraband" of war
2. Slaves that escaped would not be returned to their owners.
B. The Emancipation Proclamation became effective Jan. 1, 1863
1. Civil War now became more of a moral crusade: a "higher
purpose"
-- Moral cause of the South conversely weakened
2. Lincoln’s immediate goal not so much to free slaves as to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union at home and abroad.
3. Didn’t go as far as Confiscation Acts for freeing enemy-owned
slaves
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4. Constitutionally, the proclamation was somewhat questionable.
-- Became constitutional with the 13th Amendment in 1865
C. All slaves in areas in rebellion declared now and forever free.
-- Justification lay with removing valuable slave labor from the
Southern war cause.
D. Slaves in Border States not included nor those in specific areas of
conquered South.
-- About 800,000 slaves in all
E. In effect, did little immediately to change the plight of the slaves.
F. Reaction to Emancipation Proclamation
1. Many Northerners, especially from Border States and Ohio
Valley felt Lincoln went too far; opposed to fighting an
"abolition war"
a. Desertions increased sharply especially from Border States
b. Republicans suffered losses in mid-term 1862 elections.
-- Lost in NY, PA, OH & Lincoln's IL; still controlled of
Congress
2. Many abolitionists complained Lincoln did not go far enough.
3. Moderates and some abolitionists pleased including Greeley and
Douglass.
4. South accused Lincoln of trying to stir up a slave insurrection.
5. European working classes sympathized with the proclamation.
-- As a result, diplomatic condition of Union regarding Europe
improved.
VI. The War in the West: Battle for control of the Mississippi River
A. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant became Lincoln’s most able general
B. Grant captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in northern TN in
Feb. 1862
1. Significance: KY more secure while gateway opened to rest of
TN and GA.
2. Boosted northern morale in the face of humiliating losses in
Virginia.
C. Shiloh (April 6 & 7, 1862)
1. Federals moved down through western TN to take the
Confederacy’s only east-west railroad linking lower South to
cities on the Confederacy’s east coast
2. Grant victorious but casualties were shocking: 23,746 killed,
wounded, or missing
3. Brought shocking realization to both sides that war would not end
quickly
D. New Orleans taken by Union in spring of 1862; led by Adm. David
G. Farragut
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VII. War in the East: Lee’s last victories and the Battle of Gettysburg
A. Lee defeated General Burnside at Fredericksburg, VA, on Dec.
13, 1862
1. Burnside launched foolish frontal assault on Rebels dug in behind
a stone wall.
2. More than 10,000 Federals killed or wounded in "Burnside’s
slaughter pen"
3. Burnside removed from command and replaced by "Fighting Joe"
Hooker.
B. Chancellorsville (May 2-4, 1863)
1. Lee’s smaller force split Hooker’s army in two.
-- "Stonewall" Jackson made daring move around Union’s flank
2. Union defeated again by a smaller force only half its size
-- Hooker shortly after removed and replaced by General George
Meade
3. Significance: Stonewall Jackson killed accidentally by own man
-- Lee: "I have lost my right arm."
4. Casualties: Confederates lost 13,000 men (22% of Lee’s army)
C. Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
1. Lee decided to invade the North again, this time through PA in
hopes of strengthening peace movement in North and getting
direct foreign support.
2. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War: 53,000 casualties.
3. Day 1 -- July 1 – Confederates took Gettysburg but Union took
high ground overlooking the town.
4. Day 2 -- July 2
a. Major engagements occurred on Union right and left; Lee
hoped to flank Feds
b. Little Round Top held on extreme left; prevented flank from
caving in.
5. Day 3 -- July 3
a. Lee ordered Gen. George Pickett’s division to attack the Union
center at Cemetery Ridge; Pickett’s division annihilated
-- "High tide of the Confederacy": Rebels never again so close
to victory
b. Lee retreated while taking full responsibility for the
Confederate defeat.
6. Meade neglected to pursue Lee and finish off his army
-- Lincoln after Meade’s report that Lee had been repelled: "My
God, is that all"
7. Significance: South doomed after Gettysburg and Vicksburg;
would never again invade the North and would remain in the
defensive until the war’s end.
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8. Gettysburg Address (November, 1863)
a. Lincoln philosophically established the Declaration of
Independence as document of founding law
b. Equality became supreme commitment of the federal
government
c. Established idea of nation over union
-- The United States is a free country; NOT of United States
are a free country.
d. Most Americans today accept Lincoln’s concept of America
e. Attracted relatively little attention at the time but became one
of most important speeches in world history.
-- Union victory proved men capable of governing themselves
in free society
VIII. The End of the War in the West
A. Vicksburg campaign lasted seven months
1. Vicksburg last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
2. July 4, Confederate army surrendered to Grant; 29,500 men.
3. Significance: Split the Confederacy in two; Union controlled the
Mississippi
-- Boosted Union morale along with Union victory at Gettysburg
a day before.
B. Sherman marches through Georgia
1. William Tecumseh Sherman
-- Pushed his way through northern Georgia and captured Atlanta
in Sept. 1864.
2. "March to the Sea": After taking Atlanta, cut a 60-mile-wide
swath through heart of Georgia before arriving at Savannah on the
sea in December, 1864.
a. Determined to inflict the horrors of war on the South to break
its will.
-- "War is hell"
b. Aimed to destroy supplies destined for the Confederate army
and weaken morale of the Rebels at the front by waging war on
their homes.
c. Pioneer of "total war."
-- Despite brutality, probably shortened the war thus saving
lives.
3. Turned northward into South Carolina where destruction worse
than Georgia
a. Burned capital city of Columbia
b. Sherman’s army reached deep into North Carolina by war’s
end.
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IX. The Copperheads
A. Democratic faction that preached either defeatism with disloyal talk
or a "peace at any price" philosophy.
1. Many seized by Union without warrant and held without a trial.
2. Appealed to midwestern farmers whose trade routes were
disrupted by war
B. Condemned Lincoln for fighting an unjust war.
X. Politics and Election of 1864
A. Congressional Committee on the conduct of the War
1. Formed by anti-Lincoln Republicans secretly led by Salmon P.
Chase
2. Many distrusted his ability and wanted to keep him check.
B. Abolitionists (such as Phillips and Greeley) demanded total
emancipation.
C. Northern Democrats deeply divided as they lacked a leader.
1. War Democrats supported Lincoln (e.g., Stanton)
2. Peace Democrats numbering 10s of 1000s did not support Lincoln
-- Many favored Union through a negotiated peace, not war.
3. Copperheads most radical.
a. Some wished the Confederacy victorious; hated Lincoln
b. Strong in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois which contained many
Southerners.
-- Governors struggled to keep states cooperating with federal
gov’t.
D. Presidential Candidates
1. Union party -- Coalition of the Republican party and War
Democrats
a. Republican party temporarily out of existence.
b. Republicans feared defeat from anti-Lincoln, anti-Republican
sentiment
c. Lincoln nominated w/o serious dissent despite early push for
Chase
d. Andrew Johnson was Lincoln's runningmate; loyal War
Democrat from Tennessee who had been a small slaveowner
when war began.
-- Put on ticket to attract War Democrats and Border States
e. Slogan: "Don’t swap horses in the middle of the river."
2. Democratic Party nominated George McClellan
a. Copperheads forced a platform denouncing the war as a failure.
b. McClellan repudiated this portion of the platform
E. Course of the war affected the election.
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1. During primaries and during much of the fall, the Union forces
were stuck
a. Lincoln believed he would not be reelected.
b. Some anti-Lincoln Republicans sought to remove Lincoln in
favor of another candidate.
2. Northern victories changed boosted Lincoln politically.
a. Admiral Farragut captured Mobile, Alabama; "Damn the
torpedoes! Go ahead!”
b. General Sherman took Atlanta
c. General Phillip Sheridan destroyed the Shenandoah Valley in
Virginia.
3. Northern soldiers sent home to vote for Lincoln; others voted at
the front.
F. Result
1. Lincoln defeated McClellan 212 to 21; Lincoln only lost KY, DE,
and NJ.
-- McClellan received a surprising 45% of popular vote
2. One of most crushing defeats for the South.
a. Lincoln’s election assured continued policy of "total war"
b. Last real hope for a Confederate victory.
c. Confederate desertions increased sharply
G. Second Inaugural speech
-- "With malice toward none, with charity for all"
XI. End of the War in the East: Grant’s Virginia Campaign
A. Grant promoted to lead all Union armies after Lincoln’s dismay
with Meade after Gettysburg
1. Meade still remained head of the Army of the Potomac
2. Grant’s strategy: attack Rebel armies simultaneously thus not
allowing them to assist one another; destroy Confederate Army.
3. Campaign would result in 50,000 Union casualties
B. Wilderness (May & June, 1864) Beginning of Grant's campaign.
C. Spotsylvania Courthouse: 24,000 casualties
D. Cold Harbor (June 3, 1864)
1. Grant ordered frontal assault at a huge cost.
2. 7,000 Federals killed in a half-hour; Confederates less than 1,500.
3. Public opinion in North appalled at the losses; Critics: "Grant the
Butcher"
4. Grant determined to continue the grind; Lincoln supported him
E. Siege of Petersburg (June-Oct. 1864)
1. Contained all railroads that served Lee’s army & Richmond from
the south.
2. Lee rushed in time to defend Petersburg; Grant lay siege to the
city for 9 months.
3. Along with Richmond, fell on April 2, 1865
F. Siege of Richmond (July-Oct. 1865)
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1. Grant hoped to divert Confederate forces from Petersburg
2. Lee sacrificed several detachments in rear guard to evacuate both
Richmond & Petersburg successfully.
G. Early 1865, Confederates tried to negotiate peace between the "two
countries."
-- Lincoln not willing to accept anything short of unconditional
surrender.
H. Lee’s surrender
1. Confederate army surrounded near Appomattox Court House in
VA.
2. April 9, 1865 -- Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia.
a. War in Virginia officially over.
b. Remaining Confederate armies surrendered within a few weeks
3. Terms of surrender were generous
a. The 30,000 captured Confederates were paroled and allowed to
go home so long as they vowed never to take up arms against
the Union again.
b. Confederates allowed to keep their own horses for spring
plowing.
-- Officers could keep their sidearms
4. Grant: "The war is over; the rebels are our countrymen again."
XII. Lincoln assassinated on night of April 14, 1865 (Good Friday)
A. Only five days after Lee’s surrender, Lincoln assassinated at
Ford’s theater by John Wilkes Booth
B. Lincoln died at height of his popularity, thus becoming a martyr.
C. South cheered initially, but eventually saw it as a disaster for
them.
1. Lincoln’s reconstruction policies moderate compared to the
later Congressional Reconstruction.
2. Assassination increased bitterness in the North against the
South especially with rumors that Jefferson Davis plotted it.
XIII. Prisoner of War Camps
A. North treated prisoners better than the South; more resources
B. Southern prisons could not provide for POWs since Confederate
soldiers often lacked basic necessities.
-- Andersonville the most notorious POW camp; more than 13,000
died there
XIV. Results and costs of the Civil War
A. 620,000 soldiers dead (2% of population!); over 1 million total
casualties
B. Slavery abolished
C. Total cost of war: $15 billion (about $1.5 trillion in today’s dollars)
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-- Does not include pensions and interest on the national debt.
D. Nullification and secession died with the Confederacy
E. Ideal of Union and nation triumphant
-- Dangers of two nations and balance of power politics averted
F. War economy laid the foundation for the 2nd Industrial Revolution
after the war.
G. Monroe Doctrine became more effective; U.S. had demonstrated
military power
-- U.S. would now look to the hemisphere and beyond to expand its
influence.
Essay Questions for Review:
1. Was the Union’s victory in the Civil War inevitable? Why or why
not?
2. To what extent was American politics impacted by events of the
Civil War between 1861 and 1865?
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