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The Challenges of Command and Leadership, 1862 HIST4330: Civil War and Reconstruction Dr. Kristen Epps Today’s Questions • What were the overarching strategies of the Union and Confederate armies? • How were the Union and Confederate armies structured? • What were key military campaigns (i.e. operations) of early 1862, and how did leadership (or lack thereof) shape the outcome of these battles? Policy Grand Strategy Strategy Operations Tactics George B. McClellan Union General-inChief, November 1861-March 1862 Jefferson Davis President of the C.S.A. Robert E. Lee Confederate General, Later Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia Military Organizatio n Union Forces at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, 1861 Military Organizatio n Confederate and Union Armies Confederate • Army of the Mississippi • Army of Northern Virginia • Army of the Peninsula • Army of the West (CSA) • Army of TransMississippi • Army of Missouri • Army of Tennessee • Army of Kentucky Union • Army of the Cumberland • Army of the James • Army of the Gulf • Army of the Potomac • Army of the Ohio • Army of the Shenandoah • Army of the Tennessee • Army of Virginia • Army of the West (USA) Animated Map of Shiloh http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/ maps/battle-of-shiloh-animated.html Peninsula Campaign, March-May 1862 Peninsula Campaign, May-July 1862 Conclusions • The Union strategy was to take Richmond, break the Confederate cordon, and control the Mississippi River • In 1862, the Confederates began to adopt an offensive-defensive strategy • Although the Confederates did not have a generalin-chief, the two armies were similarly organized into companies, regiments, brigades, divisions, corps, and then armies • Shiloh and the Peninsula Campaign were significant—at Shiloh, Grant’s leadership brought a Union victory, and on the Peninsula, McClellan doomed the Union advance on Richmond