Fighting the War

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Fighting the War

• Chapter 21

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War

• Bull Run on July 21, 1861 Stonewall Jackson
  and Confederate reinforcements were able to hold.
• George McClellan first commander of the Army of
  the Potomac. Led Peninsula Campaign. Frustrated
  by Jackson, Jeb Stuart, and Gen. Lees Seven
  Days Battle on July 26-June2, 1862.
• Union Strategy Total War

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Strategy

• One Blockade the coast
• Two Liberate the slaves
• Three Cut of South from Mississippi
• Four Chop the South in pieces West and over
• Five Capture Richmond
• Naval battle converted yachts and ferryboats as
  Navy. Introduction of Ironclads!
• Antietam Lees plans found on the ground and his
  plans were halted. Bloody battle. Victory
  Lincoln needed to announce the Emancipation
  Proclamation.

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• New commander Gen. Burnside who lost many a
  soldier to the South in Fredericksburg Dec 1863.
  John Lee Hooker took the troops to meet their
  doom at the hand of Jackson (who also died).
• General Meade and Buford takes over the Union in
  time for Gettysburg and Confederate General
  Picketts charge. (see Encarta)
• In the West the Union had drunk U.S. Grant who
  did not mind losing a few men in the
  slaughterhouse of war. Gen. Sherman takes over in
  the West with a scorched earth policy for the
  Union.

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Election Time

• War Democrats support Lincoln and ultimately will
  join forces with the Republicans to form the
  Union Party
• Peace Democrats did not favor Lincoln or war.
• Copperheads openly opposed war, the draft, and
  Lincoln.
• Lincoln (Union) v. George McClellan
  (Democrat/Copperhead)
• Grant the Butcher and his meat grinder warfare
  held out and prevailed pushing Lees troops back
  to Virginia.

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Surrender

• April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse in
  Virginia Lee officially surrendered.
• The war is over the rebels our are countrymen
  again.
• April 14, 1865 Lincoln was assassinated by John
  Wilkes Booth.
• 600,000 U.S. deaths and 15 billion price tag for
  the conflict.

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