Download Ch. 10 - Civil War

Mr. E’s Tuesday, March. 10, 2009
Louisiana History Class
March 10, 1864 ~ Union
Gen. Nathaniel Banks
begins in Red River
Campaign.
74.
Describe the Fall of New Orleans and the movement of
Louisiana’s government during the Civil War.
Today’s objective: Looking at the “River Campaigns” of the
Civil War.
Past S.S. LEAP Questions
Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana
Purchase had what four
boundaries?
3/10/09 1.
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Fact
# 1
Interchangeable
Vocabulary:
North
South
Union
Confederate
Yankee
Rebel
Blue
Gray
Federalist
Secessionist
United States
Confederate States
USA
CSA
Vocabulary
The fall of New
Orleans – The port of
New Orleans was a key
location for both the state
and the Confederacy. The
Union knew this and
blockaded the river. In
April1862 the Union under
command of David Farragut
ran the defenses at the
mouth of the river and
captured New Orleans.
Fact # 1
Fact # 2
Benjamin Butler – In May
1862 Butler took command of
New Orleans and quickly
became known as “Beast
Butler” for his stealing from
the citizens of the city. He even
became known as “Spoons
Butler” for his thief of
silverware.
People even began putting his
picture at the bottom of
‘Chamber pots’.
Fact #2
Order No. 28 – Many of the city's
women, in particular, expressed
contempt by insulting Union troops.
“As officers and soldiers of the United
States have been subject to repeated
insults from the women (calling
themselves ladies) of New Orleans…
we are ordered that when any female
shall by word, gesture, or show
contempt for any soldier she shall be
regarded and held liable to be treated
as a woman of the town plying her
avocation.”
Fact #3
Baton Rouge falls –
Farragut continued his
attacks up the Mississippi
river and captured BR. In
December of 1862 the
capital was burned while
union troops tried to start a
campfire inside the building.
The army also engaged Rebel
troops on Bayou Sara near St.
Francisville.
Fact #4
Fact # 4
Fall of Vicksburg - After
assaults against the Rebel
fortifications at Vicksburg
were repulsed with heavy
casualties, Grant besieged the
city until it surrendered, July
1863, yielding command of
the Mississippi River to the
Union.
The Confederate surrender at Vicksburg, when
combined with Gen. Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg
the previous day, was the turning point of the war.
Fact #5
Fact # 3
Fact #6
Fall of Port Hudson –
This was the last stronghold
on the Mississippi, after
Vicksburg, surrendered
August 1863. Some 30,000
Union troops surrounded and
starved some 6,000 rebels. In
their hunger they were forced
to eat horses, mules, and
finally rats. Many of the rebels
were boys – 12 and 13 years of
age.
Red River
Campaign – As
The Union army
burned Alexandria
including all land
records.
Fact #7
the last Union
campaign head into
1864 the Union army
advanced up the Red
River in pursuit of
the Louisiana
government – Baton
Rouge to Alexandria
to Shreveport.
Mansfield and
Pleasant Hill – The
outnumbered Confederates
turned back Union troops at
the Battle of Mansfield – over
1,500 Yankees. The South
then had a ‘night attack’ on
the Union troops at Pleasant
Hill, April 1864 – and the
Yankees ended their advance
on Shreveport and
Louisiana’s government.
Fact #8
Wed (11): Ch. 10, Civil War
Thurs (12): Ch. 10, Civil War
Fri (13): Ch. 11, Post CW
Mon (16): Ch. 11, Post CW
Tue (17): Ch. 11, Post CW
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