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A Womans Civil War Supporting Images

• Leadership in American History
• Book Club 2
• The New-York Historical Society
• Kim Sekel, Liz Grant

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Zouaves in the Civil War

• The original Zouaves were regiments of French
  soldiers in Algeria who recruited from the
  Zouaoua tribe. Their style of uniform was copied
  by other military regiments, and several Zouave
  units fought in the civil war, mostly on the
  Union side. McDonald mentions seeing a Zouave on
  pg. 25.

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General Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson

• Stonewall Jackson was a well-known General in the
  Confederate Army. He fought in the First Battle
  of Bull Run (or the Battle of Manassas), the
  Second Battle of Bull Run, and the Battle of
  Fredericksburg, a major Confederate victory. He
  was hit by friendly fire in the Battle of
  Chancellorsville, and died several days later
  (pgs. 146-7). McDonald first mentions Jackson on
  pg. 32, referencing a newspaper article that
  claims that Jackson is fleeing Union troops. The
  battle she is referring to may be the First
  Battle of Kernstown, the first battle of
  Jacksons campaign through the Shenandoah Valley,
  which ended in defeat. The battle was fought in
  McDonalds town of Winchester on March 23, 1862.

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The Seven Days Battles

• From June 25 to July 1, 1862, a series of battles
  were fought near Richmond, Virginia. Overall, the
  battles were a victory for the Confederacy, which
  succeeded in driving the Union Army away from
  Richmond. McDonald references this victory in her
  entry of July 4, 1862, on pg. 66. The following
  slide shows a map of the battles of June 30, 1862.

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The Battle of Antietam

• The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, was
  the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, and in
  American military history. The battle is
  considered a strategic victory for the Union
  because it forced Lee to abandon his first
  campaign to invade the North. Five days later,
  President Lincoln issue the Emancipation
  Proclamation. McDonald references Antietam on pg.
  74 of her diary.

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The Emancipation Proclamation

• President Lincoln issued the Emancipation
  Proclamation on September 22, 1862. It stated
  that all slaves in the Confederate states would
  be free as of January 1, 1863 unless those states
  returned to the Union. On pg. 83, McDonald
  speculates that the Emancipation Proclamation
  actually hurt the union, going so far as to
  suggest that Union soldiers were planning on
  quitting the army because they did not support
  the President.

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Queen of the West

• On page 127, McDonald references the Queen of the
  West gunboat, which began its military service as
  a Union vessel before being captured by the
  Confederacy and put into service. She was used
  to force another vessel, the USS Indianola to
  surrender. While the loss of the Indianola was
  significant, the Union used the defeat to its
  advantage by setting up a dummy monitor, painting
  logs to look like guns. The crew aboard the
  Indianola panicked at word of the monitor, and
  set its guns off to prevent recapture. This is
  the blunder to which McDonald refers. The next
  two slides show views of the Queen of the West
  before and after capture.

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General Robert H. Milroy

• McDonald makes repeated reference to General
  Milroy, and his eventual defeat in Winchester in
  1963 marks the end of her actual diary. Milroy
  was criticized both for his treatment of the
  citizens of Winchester during the occupation of
  the city and for his actions during the second
  Battle of Winchester, where he continually
  ignored suggestions that he withdraw from the
  town, counting on the strength of the
  fortification in Winchester to hold out as the
  Confederate army approached. He was wrong in his
  assessment and was captured, as the diary
  indicates.

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More Images of the Civil War

• The following slides include more images from the
  Civil War. Many (most) of these images are
  available through the Library of Congresss
  Memory Project (memory.loc.gov).

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