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Civil War
• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: First total war
• Part 3: Impact of Technology
• Part 4: Political leadership
• Part 5: General Grant in the West
• Part 6: Eastern stalemate
• Part 7: Theories for Southern defeat
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Part 1: Introduction
• A) April 1861: Fort Sumter falls
• B) July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run
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A) April 1861: Fort Sumter falls• Lincoln re supplied it, after telling Southerners there was no
guns or ammunition in supplies
• Confederates still attacked the fort on the Island in harbor of Charleston, South Carolina
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• Thereafter, four more states from the upper South joined the Confederacy:
– Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas
• Lincoln held on to Maryland, a border slave state, only by suspending habeas corpus, there, and arresting Confederate sympathizers
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B) July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run
• Union army was march towards the Confederates at Manassas Junction
• After a period of battle that had lasted from dawn to midday, freshly arrived Union troops from Massachusetts excitedly charged up Henry Hill
• Confederate troops broke rank, and exuberant Union troops shouted, “The war is over!”
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• The Union troops gave way slowly at first, but discipline dissolved once the commander ordered a retreat, and the army quickly degenerated into a frightened, stampeding mob
• This rout at Bull Run sobered the North. Gone were the dreams of ending the war with one glorious battle
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Part 2: First total war
• Magnitude: The Civil War on the other hand, was the first war whose battles routinely involved more than 100,000k troops.
• This many combatants could only be:
A. Equipped through the use of factory produced weaponry
B. Moved and supplied through the help of railroads,
C. Sustained only through the concerted efforts of the CIVILIAN population as a whole.
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• The following were critical to the outcome of the war:A. The morale of the population as a whole,B. The quality of POLITICAL leadership,C. The utilization of the industrial and economic might.
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Part 3: Impact of Technology
• The Telegraph:
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• The Rifle: smooth bore Muskets which had served as the basic infantry weapon, gave way to the rifle.
– Easier to load, and the invention of the percussion cap made the rifle serviceable in wet weather.
– An effective range of 400 yards (5 times greater than the old muskets)
– Magnitude and casualties higher
– Emphasize defense over offense
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Part 4: Political leadership
• National experience consisted of one term in the House of Representatives!
• Shrewd judge of character and a superb politician
• To achieve a common goal, he overlooked withering criticism and personal slights
• Few presidents have better able to communicate to the average citizen.
• Popularity with the troops was called “universal.”
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• Effective military leader as commander in chief.
• Understood that the Union’s superior manpower and materiel would be decisive only when the Confederacy was threatened along a broad front.
• Knew how to deal with the border-states.
– At the beginning of the conflict, Kentucky officially declared its neutrality.
– Kentucky and Missouri gave the Union army access to the major river systems of the Western theater, down which it launched its first successful invasion of the Confederacy.
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Part 5: General grant in the West
• A) Personal background
• B) Military strategy
• C) Shiloh, Tennessee (April 1862)
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A) Personal background
• First decisive Union victory was won by general named Ulysses S. Grant
• An undistinguished student at West Point, Grant eventually resigned his commission and went back to civilian life
• When war broke out he was a store clerk in Illinois & promptly volunteered, and two months later became a brigadier general
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B) Military strategy
• “The art of war is simple: Find out where your enemy is, and get at him as soon as you can, and strike him as hard as you can, AND KEEP MOVING.”
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• Seized any opening, remain extraordinarily calm and clear headed
• Absorbed details on a map almost photographically
• Took advantage of the telegraph to track troop movements.
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C) Shiloh, TennesseeApril 1862
• Grant’s army was surprised, and in a day of fierce fighting his army was driven back to the Tennessee River, where they huddled in a cold rain
• General Sherman came upon him & was about to suggest to him a retreat, but he hesitated long enough to hear Grants intention to continue
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• Sherman complied & brought reinforcements, he ferried his troops across the river all night and counterattacked in the morning and drove out the Confederates
• Costly in blood to both sides: 23,000 casualties
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Part 6: Eastern stalemate
• Lincoln says, “ If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to BORROW it!”
• On the Confederate side, General Robert E. LEE eventually realized the South needed a decisive victory.
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• Sept. 1862 Confederate President Jefferson Davis allowed Lee to invade North, hoping to detach Maryland and isolate Washington.
– But Union soldiers discovered copy of Lee’s orders accidently left behind at a campsite by a Confederate officer.
– From this McClellan learned that his troops greatly outnumbered Lee’s & launched series of badly coordinated assaults near Antietam Creek
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• McClellan allowed Confederate Army to escape back to Virginia, so President Lincoln permanently relieved McClellan from his command.
• General Burnside replaced McClellan, with similar incompetence.
• In 1864 that Lincoln “Found his man,” and brought General Grant back East to be the head of all the Union Armies.
– Grant, with General Sherman, waged total war, &ultimately divided the East of the Confederacy with Sherman’s march on Atlanta and then to the sea in November December 1864.
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Part 7: Theories for Southern Defeat
• A) The South had a ‘loss of will’:
• B) South failed to gain European support:
• C) Died of democracy:
• D) North had more manpower and economic resources:
• E) Additional ‘colored’ troops:
• F) Bifurcation of the War:
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A) The South had a ‘loss of will’
• Counter-argument: They shifted objectives shifted from military to political means for triumph
– Exp: Using black codes instead of slave codes, for example to control blacks and their labor.
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B) South failed to gain European support
• Counter-argument: England would not have sent soldiers anyways
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C) Died of democracy
• By seceding in favor of states rights, individual governors wouldn’t pull together
• Counter-argument: 20th century wartime command economy was too centralized to produce pluralist limitations
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D) North had more manpower and economic resources
• Counter-argument: although raw data supports skewed resources, no military historian ever found that the South lost a single battle from this
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E) Additional ‘colored’ troops
• African Americans more than 1/4 of all Union soldiers.
• The white South was full of disillusionment, with the system crumbling around it; and “disloyalty” of the escaping slaves.
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NY City Draft Riots• 1863: Protests against the draft throughout the
North, led to riots and disturbances broke out in many cities.
• Three day span (July 13th-16th) killed 105 people.
• Anger at the draft for racial prejudice were what most contemporaries saw as the cause of violence– African American men were the major target of said
violence.
• Urban growth and tensions also contributed to the riots
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F) Bifurcation of the War
• West was won early by the Union.
• All the great Union generals come from West to East
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