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Memphis
Corinth
Norfolk
The Seven Days, 1862
June 25
At Oak Grove
McClellan calls
the fighting off,
then on, too late,
gets nowhere.
Jackson
June 26
At Mechanicsville,
Lee’s attack falls apart.
McClellan retreats.
Tenn R.
Chronically failing to exploit his 3:1 advantage,
McClellan fears what Jackson may do (green
arrow) to his supply line and shifts it down to
the James River. This abandons any hope of
laying siege to Richmond.
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Though relocating his line of supply to the less
endangered James River may be prudent,
McClellan in so doing essentially gives up on a
siege of Richmond. His big siege cannons can’t
be gotten up the James, nor overland, by it.
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Stalemate at Savage’s Station.
McClellan withdraws.
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forces there, south of the Chickahominy,
do little as successive battles rage
down the river’s north side.)
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serving as temporary commander of
himself, turned down a requisition
request from himself.
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the Shenandoah and McDowell at Manassas and Fredericksburg. Pope
is a braggart and not particularly capable. He works to concentrate his Chancellorsville
forces. His job is to protect Washington, defeat Jackson if he can (if he
Fredericksburg
Lexington
can find Jackson!), and, if possible, drive south to help McClellan.
KENTUCKY
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July 1
At Malvern Hill McClellan defeats
another badly coordinated attack
by Lee and, against his
generals’ wishes, withdraws
to a port of exit,
Harrison’s
Harrison’s
Landing
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DAVID DETWEILER
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Detweiler, M. David.
The Civil War: the story of the war with maps / M. David Detweiler. —
First edition.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8117-1449-5
1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. 2. United States—History—Civil
War, 1861–1865—Maps. I. Title.
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Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1862 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
1864 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Battles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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Foreword
The aim is to give the reader a sense of the flow of the war.
These pages are an amateur’s attempt to make a book he wanted to see
but couldn’t find.
New generations are losing America’s Civil War—not educated dedicatees
but millions of young without a knowledge of history. History’s good for you.
The maps in this book try to give a view from above—under the reading
eye synchronously—of the campaigns, clashing armies, sweeping raids crisscrossing in ebb and flow, 1861–1865. The war unfolding in sequence. Its battles, tricks, slaughters, sieges, routs, pursuits and sly maneuvers mapped side
by side in time and side by side on the vast, constant grid east of the Mississippi. Virginia’s tactical rivers and woods. Golden, rolling Maryland and Pennsylvania farm country. A Tennessee mountain ice storm. The fetid bayous of
Mississippi. Secret passes in and out of the Shenandoah. Fissured young lips
in a Kennesaw furnace. The commanders, foibled, brilliant—both. The afraid,
valorous, betimes cowardly, much more often brave foot soldier bearing on
bent back Mars engorged.
I took a long time designing the maps, much detail, the margin art, and
wrote the text and captions only to—finished—sit back to marvel at how
short it all falls. Still, maybe fellow beginners will gain perspective, or the seasoned scholar a side-reference.
Simple of necessity and of necessity incomplete, what follows was fun to
put together, for all the pressure. And certainly enduring fascination with the
war provides a good, if inadequate, way to say “Thank you for your service” to
the noble Blue and Gray shades.
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Prelude . . .
NEBRASKA TERRITORY
KANSAS TERRITORY
NEW MEXICO
TERRITORY
Long before the war, its story begins. At the United States’ founding in the
late 1700s, the American Constitution winked at slavery. The ownership, repression, forced labor, disenfranchisement and brutalization of black human progeny was accepted. It was the only way to get the southern states to sign the
Constitution, without which there would have been no United States. By the
1850s, slavery was flourishing in the South, rich from its tobacco and cotton
plantations, a society little changed—gentle, unprogressive, traditional, chivalric—based on the bonded labor of 4,000,000.
Suddenly, in 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act permits slavery’s growth—into
the nation’s vast, developing western territories (red arrows above), conceivably
beyond.
Those opposed to slavery had hoped the institution would die off in time.
Overnight Kansas-Nebraska has created the very real prospect that, far from
gradually dying out, slavery will thrive. Outrage over Kansas-Nebraska is
nowhere more passionate than in the heart of Illinois lawyer/politico Lincoln.
He hates slavery and springs into action, campaigning with vigorous eloquence
and impeccable reason against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. In November 1860,
Lincoln is elected President of the United States, at the head of a new party, the
Republican, opposed to slavery’s expansion.
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Outraged in its turn, the South, feeling their economy and very way of life
imperiled, quits the United States. Between December 1860 and February 1861, PENNSYLVANIA
the Deep South [shaded
]—South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas—declares itself an OHIO
independent nation, the ConILLINOISfederate StatesINDIANA
of America (C.S.A.). The rebelling South is certain Lincoln wants
slavery ended, knows he can’t touch it yet, and if ever able will strike slavery
every military, legal and constitutional deathblow he can. They’re right.
In his March inaugural address Lincoln insists: We want to be friends. We
want to reconcile. Be assured, Lincoln is telling the South, the United States will
not trouble slavery where it exists. He omits to note that he and the Republicans are set against any extension of slavery. This, slavery’s spread (KansasVIRGINIA
Nebraska) is little mentioned at the war’s outset—by Lincoln because he wants
to downplay differences—by the Confederacy because they want the grandest,
most existential differences
imaginable.
KENTUCKY
Southerners have explored creation of a slave-based cotton-sugar empire
in the Caribbean and Latin America (red arrows below).
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NORTH CAROLINA
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1861 Winter/Spring
If war is inevitable, Lincoln wants the Confederacy to start it.
Lincoln’s mind is never far from the law. Federal property in the South—Union
arsenals, armories, forts and customs houses, duties from which comprise an
important revenue stream, Lincoln declares he will protect as best he can. Which is
not very well. Federal property in the South is dropping to the Confederacy like
low fruit. Lincoln feels himself on solid legal ground in ordering military missions
into the South, not to attack but rather to resupply and protect U.S.A. property.
In April Lincoln authorizes the arming of expeditionary forces to relieve,
among other Federal possessions, Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. A walled, cannoned island, Sumter is Union soil. The Rebels have cut Sumter
off and are bombarding the stronghold. On their flat roofs, in waistcoat and day
gown the good people of Charleston watch, out over the glittery bay, distant flame
spurts and smoke where their batteries are making the surrender of the Federal
sea fort a certainty.
April 1861: Sumter falls.
The war has come. Lincoln has avoided “starting” it.
Celebrations abound. It will be a short war, both sides think. Each side knows it
will win. Everyone is seeing what they want to see.
The Confederacy raises armies, regiment by regiment, smooth young faces
jostling recruiting tables in squares and on village greens loud with flag color,
band music and the war drug, euphoria. The Confederate president, Jefferson
Davis, a brave, narrow, honorable micromanager, sets about organizing his newborn nation. Did the Confederacy have the right to secede? Yes, they say; Thomas
Jefferson has said so: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary. But
who gets to say whether or not secession was necessary? Not the government
being rebelled against. All men are created equal? With rights? Not black people, per
the Constitution. In addition to decrying tramplings on their right to self-rule,
Southerners argue that black people are subhuman. This perversion will not be
put down by reasoned argument, but rather by history’s hard currency: force.
Over the two months following Sumter’s fall, four more states go out of the
Union. Most notably Virginia with her industry, military, location, manpower, political clout, tradition and a favorite son named Lee.
The Border States so-called, part slave, remain in the Union. Some by a thread.
Of mixed loyalty and on the fence, the Border States are vital. As the Israelis say,
Look at a map. Lincoln bends mightily not to alienate the Border States. He says: “I
hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.”
The war will be fought, won and lost on the map opposite. In the West, as Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky were then thought of. In Georgia. In the East: Virginia, Border State Maryland, a sliver of Pennsylvania. Bracketed by national
capitals Richmond and Washington, Virginia’s lovely grid of rivers, towns, heights,
forests and battle plains will see more fighting than any other.
Not shown are Texas, western Louisiana, the whole of Arkansas—all Confederate—or the whole of Border State Missouri. Though there will be hard fighting in
these regions, in the end they’re not scale-tippers. Generals who have screwed up
elsewhere will be put out to pasture here.
Rivers are important, as barriers and transportation boulevards. Railroads will
play a tremendous role (a few important ones are sketched as examples). The
fabled Shenandoah Valley, cornucopia of Rebel livestock and grain, within whose
mountainous green walls whole marching armies can hide, will have a leading role.
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Lincoln’s relief expedition arrives after the
bombardment of Sumter begins, but stormy
seas prevent the ships from reaching the fort.
One ship is diverted to Fort Pickens on the
Gulf Coast of Florida.
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New Orleans
Sketchily shown to give an impression, the rail
networks will figure prominently.
Note Western Virginia, an up-for-grabs sub-region of
staunchly Confederate Virginia proper. Note how the
mountain wall of the Appalachians divides Western
Virginia from Virginia, as well as, more generally, East
(Virginia) from West (Kentucky, Tennessee, etc.).
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The militaries build, forging arms, pressing bullets, armoring ships, drilling
enlistees, cutting and stitching uniforms, mixing gunpowder. Garrisons grow.
Forts go up. The North has twice the roads, rails, manpower and nearly ten
times the factories, mills, ships, foundries, armorers.
May. In Ohio, Union troops under McClellan are poised to enter Kentucky. In
Tennessee, Confederate forces are poised to enter Kentucky. Kentucky Governor
Magoffin declares neutrality, in theory closing Kentucky to fighting and troops.
Good luck with that. Lincoln must handle Kentucky with kid gloves to keep the
key Border State in the Union, so at first he leans toward honoring Kentucky
neutrality. But the building pressure of growing armies increasingly in each
other’s face has its own logic.
June. A Union success at Philippi, in Western Virginia, while minor gets good
press. McClellan, commander overall, though never anywhere near the battle
takes credit for the little victory. Great at strategy, a fine organizer of armies,
whose plans are always textbook, McClellan is a short, huge-chested figure of
some charisma. He has had success all his life, though nothing spectacular.
July. McClellan travels to the Philippi region in search of laurels, taking personal command there.
At Rich Mountain McClellan sends Rosecrans around the opposing Rebel
force’s rear flank. Rosecrans assaults with success, the battle sounds of which
McClellan misreads as failure. Suddenly unsure, McClellan declines to follow up
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with a frontal attack as planned. The Union Rich Mountain victory is not of the
Corrick’s
Ford
magnitude it could have been. At Corrick’s Ford, nearby, Morris commands Philippi
Union forces that win a running skirmish and the entire region is for all practical
ST Rich Mtn.
purposes cleared of Rebels for the rest of the war. This tiny campaign is a footnote—fine print compared to what’s going to come. But it boosts McClellan’s
image. In overall command during the campaign, McClellan is due credit, which
he takes, in the Northern press and however else he can find opportunity to
praise himself.
Boston: the first all-black unit drills; they are not allowed to serve. Civil violence flares. In the Border States especially: mobs and irregulars anti-Lincoln,
anti-slavery, anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-military-service . . . the Baltimore
area is inflamed against Lincoln. Center and western Maryland are Union-sympathetic. In East Tennessee, though that state has gone Confederate, the vote
on joining the C.S.A. was two-to-one against. East Tennessee will even provide
soldiers for the North.
Horrible as they are, wars spin off progress. The first national sanitary commission is formed—harbinger of health, sanitation and nursing awareness.
Just across the Potomac from Washington, Union infantry is chased off a
troop train by Rebel artillery fire; the train is captured.
Observation balloons trail their telegraph communication wires to the
ground, ogling enemy positions.
West Virginia secedes from Virginia, entering a pro-Union limbo.
In Washington, a House committee investigates loyalty, much of which, in
the Union, is faked.
Agèd Union chief general Winfield Scott proposes enveloping—strangling—the Confederacy. Take the Mississippi, blockade Rebel seaports, wait
them out. The main Confederate army in the East is at Manassas. Waiting. The
South does not necessarily need to attack. Only hold. Lincoln, pressured by
public opinion and the media to get something going militarily (“On to Richmond!”), wants action, attack.
Scott’s Anaconda Plan
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Holding Fort Monroe, Union general Butler refuses to
return fugitive slaves who enter his lines. In June he
sends out a force to attack Confederates eight miles
away at Big Bethel. The Northerners are defeated.
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Old Winfield Scott’s “Anaconda” strategy of—basically—laying siege to a
600,000-square-mile nation (by blocking off the Mississippi, the coastline
and the borders of the Confederacy and then waiting the Confederate
States of America out) fails to address the reality that, to win, the C.S.A.
need only survive. Lincoln sees early on that pressure—military—war—must
be taken to—into—Rebel territory. Lincoln wants the Rebel army at
Manassas attacked.
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Charleston
Montgomery
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Vicksburg
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Despite Sumter’s fall, the North’s naval might enables them to hold offshore strongholds,
Fort Monroe at Virginia’s southeast extremity, Pickens at Pensacola, Forts Clark and Hatteras
off North Carolina. The North’s navy (the South has almost none) begins blockading
Confederate commercial ports from Texas to the Carolinas. Sleek Rebel blockade runners
maintain a small flow of commerce in and out of the stoppered Southern ports, but the
blockade dwindles Southern commerce significantly. Warships duel in estuaries and on
the high seas. In Union yards construction has begun on ironclads, wooden steamships
fitted out with cannon and metal-carapaced. The South will build ironclads too, but fewer.
In the ironclad warship the non-wood, non-wind future of navies is made flesh.
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1861 July
Manassas /Bull Run
In northern Virginia the Battle of Manassas (Confederate name) or Bull Run
(Union name) is the first major clash of the war. Ordered by Lincoln, who has
been taking heat from the Northern populace and newspapers for not driving
to Richmond, a Union force commanded by McDowell ventures from Washington, D.C., into Rebel territory. Earnest, intelligent, spectacularly gluttonous,
McDowell has never commanded a battle. With some reluctance he poorly
manages the slow, undisciplined amble over Virginia soil of his 30,000-odd
green soldiers. Around the key rail junction at Manassas, Beauregard’s equally
green 20,000-or-so Rebels (B) are waiting—content to defend. It has occurred
to the Confederacy that, given their numerical and industrial inferiority, plus the
fact that to win they need only stay where they are, defending what they hold
may be preferable to border-crossing aggression. “We just want to be left
alone,” Jefferson Davis will say. Of course. If the Confederacy is “just left alone,”
they’ve won!
While not a large engagement compared to the fighting to come, Manassas
nevertheless will involve more combatants and casualties than any previous
battle in American history.
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Patterson’s Union force in the
Shenandoah Valley is charged with
preventing Johnston’s Rebel force
there from breaking out and hurrying
eastward to join up with Beauregard
at Manassas.
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RAILROADS:
Crisscrossing the young nation, rail lines provide opportunity to supply armies on the
march into hostile environs. The rails can also facilitate the swift shifting of large bodies
of troops to concentrate power where needed (as at Manassas). Johnston ( J ) has the
Manassas line available to him. Patterson ( P ) and McDowell, for all the North’s rail
brawn, have no such readily available rail artery (only an impracticable track wandering
to the north in Maryland). Railroads, during the war, count. Often only a threat to a vital
rail artery can divert and change the plans of armies.
Richmond
Johnston eludes an extremely chary Patterson. Entraining his force, Johnston
rushes his 11,000 Rebels at rail speed to Manassas where, swelling Beauregard’s
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tactic the South will use to force-multiply more than once
in the bloody years to come.
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Acknowledgments
Once I’d conceived and detailed the maps, many of which survive in original
form, the grown-ups took over. Kumiko Yamazaki, to call whom a cartographer is like calling Bach a musician, developed each map to final form with
spectacular creativity. Caroline Stover’s graphic-arts talent made the maps
and margin art special, every arrow, shading, icon and close-quarters composition scheme. Wendy Reynolds paginated masterfully. Judith Schnell gave
invaluable advice. A hundred times along the way Mark Allison shared his
concision, graphic intuition, word-sense and Ockham’s eye. Mark is Greenwich
Mean Time.
To them I am indebted inexpressibly. But most of all to David Reisch, who
makes genius research, cornucopian knowledge—eclectic as well as foundational—preternatural efficiency and prowess in English look effortless. David’s
perfection of—in many instances life-saving surgery on—the maps was of a
piece with his tireless consulting, proofing, copy editing, upgrading, collating
and course-correcting, flawless always and always with good humor and flair.
Stackpole’s History Editor, David has brought many a manuscript to fruition. If
we’re lucky, one of these days one of these will be his.
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Battles
Antietam, 48–52
Atlanta, 136–37
Averasboro, 146
Gaines’s Mill, 36
Gettysburg, 86–90, 92–93
Glendale, 36
Ball’s Bluff, 10–12
Bentonville, 146
Big Black River Bridge, 74
Brandy Station, 79
Brice’s Crossroads, 132
Bull Run, First. See Manassas, First
Bull Run, Second. See Manassas, Second
Island No. 10, 25, 28
Iuka, 53
Cedar Creek, 140–41
Cedar Mountain, 40
Champion Hill, 74
Chancellorsville, 68–71
Chattanooga, 106–11
Chickamauga, 100–104
Cold Harbor, 130–31
Corinth, 55
Crater, 136–37
Cross Keys, 34
Dallas, 130–31
Ezra Church, 136–37
Fair Oaks. See Seven Pines
Five Forks, 146
Fort Donelson, 20–23
Fort Fisher, 142–43, 145
Fort Henry, 20–23
Fort Pulaski, 28
Fort Stedman, 146
Fort Stevens, 136
Fort Sumter, 4
Fort Wagner, 97
Franklin, 142–43
Fredericksburg, 58–59
Front Royal, 32
Jonesborough, 140
Kennesaw Mountain, 134–35
Kernstown (1862), 25
Kernstown (1864), 136
Lynchburg, 134
Malvern Hill, 36
Manassas, First, 8–9
Manassas, Second, 40
McDowell, 28
Mechanicsville, 36
Mobile Bay, 138
Monitor and Merrimack, 25
Monocacy, 134
Murfreesboro. See Stones River
Nashville, 142–43
New Market, 126–27
New Orleans, 28
North Anna, 128–29
Oak Grove, 36
Pea Ridge, 25
Peachtree Creek, 136–37
Perryville, 55
Petersburg, 132–133, 134–35, 136–37,
138–39, 140, 144, 146
Port Gibson, 66
Port Republic, 34
Raymond, 72
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Saylor’s Creek, 146
Seven Days, 36
Seven Pines, 32
Sherman’s March to the Sea, 142–43
Shiloh, 26–27
Spotsylvania, 124–27
Spring Hill, 142–43
Stones River, 62–63
Vicksburg, 60, 64, 66, 72, 74, 76, 78, 94
Trevilian Station, 132
Yellow Tavern, 125
Yorktown, 28
Wilderness, 118–21
Williamsburg, 30
Wilson’s Creek, 10
Winchester (1862), 32
Winchester (1863), 80
Winchester (1864), 140
Wyse Fork, 146
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