* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download Advantage & Disadvantage
Siege of Fort Pulaski wikipedia , lookup
Arkansas in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Namozine Church wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Gaines's Mill wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip wikipedia , lookup
First Battle of Lexington wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Seven Pines wikipedia , lookup
Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Kentucky in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Texas in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Fort Donelson wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Lewis's Farm wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Island Number Ten wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Fort Henry wikipedia , lookup
Confederate States of America wikipedia , lookup
Union blockade wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries wikipedia , lookup
Hampton Roads Conference wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Shiloh wikipedia , lookup
Red River Campaign wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Big Bethel wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Wilson's Creek wikipedia , lookup
East Tennessee bridge burnings wikipedia , lookup
Battle of New Bern wikipedia , lookup
Galvanized Yankees wikipedia , lookup
United States presidential election, 1860 wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Port Royal wikipedia , lookup
Tennessee in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Blockade runners of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Fort Sumter wikipedia , lookup
Issues of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
First Battle of Bull Run wikipedia , lookup
Opposition to the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Fort Fisher wikipedia , lookup
Capture of New Orleans wikipedia , lookup
Fort Sumter wikipedia , lookup
Baltimore riot of 1861 wikipedia , lookup
Conclusion of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Confederate privateer wikipedia , lookup
Economy of the Confederate States of America wikipedia , lookup
Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Virginia in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps wikipedia , lookup
South Carolina in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Alabama in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Anaconda Plan wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Fort Pillow wikipedia , lookup
Georgia in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Border states (American Civil War) wikipedia , lookup
United Kingdom and the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
• 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 ? ? Disadvantages ? ? 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