Ready for War
The Old Army
o They think that the war will be over in 3 months, no one expects a long
war, now both sides have to raise an army
o The army before the war is very small, 16,400 men in 1861, 1080 officers
and of them 286 resign and join the
Consolidating the War Effort
Overview
o North
Originally had a government that was out of sight but this changes,
govt under Abe and republicans fundamentally alters, as does the
northern economy, business and govt become entwined
Localism had been goo
Election of 1860
a. It was a victory for the Republican nominee, Lincoln, and the size of the
Republican vote was strongest in the upper tier in the north, where antislavery expansion and anti-southern sentiment was strongest
b. The states in the deep sou
Bull Run
On to Bull Run
o Background
Lincoln says that the Anaconda Plan is a political impossibility, he
want wants end it swiftly, so he pushes his armies to push forward
on all fronts
Armies: 1st-Washington and Richmond, 2nd-West Virginia,
3rd Misso
Beginnings of the Confederacy
a. The confederate government was founded February 1861 in Montgomery,
AL
b. Wanted the south to appear 100% united
c. The most aggressive secessionists were not given the top leadership
positions b/c they were regarded as to
Abraham Lincoln
a. One of the closest observers of the meaning of the civil war as well as its
President at the time
b. Classic American case of the self made man
b.i. Father was a farmer with no education
b.ii. Mother was an illegitimate child
c. Born in
Battle of 7 Days
During Seven Pines Johnston was injured and Robert E. Lee took
his place, Lee decides to act and sends out J. Stuart to find the
Union Army Stuarts ride around McClellan-tells Lee M has
committed a cardinal sin of 19th century warfare-Ms
Foreign Matters
General Information
o Consolidation of War effort
How the nations are going to fight the war, In order to wage a war
of this scope they are going to have to consolidated government
authority, what people do and how they martial their res
Fort Sumter
a. When Lincoln had given his inaugural address (March 1861) he promised
to not interfere with slavery where it existed but he would maintain
government authority, which were the forts off southern coasts that
belonged to the federal governmen
The South and Lee
The Gulf Coast & Mississippi River
o 1862 Campaign
Union sends fleet down Mississippi River and Admiral Farragut
captures Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Memphis
This is the Union war machine doing something that the
confederacy really ca
War in West and Battle of Shiloh
War in the West
o Fort Henry & Fort Donelson
While all this is going on in the East, theres also a very important
string of events and battles in the west
Looking to the West Abe know his strategy is right, keep up
press
Sectional Conflict
a. 1775-1783, the American Revolution and the Constitution helped lay the
groundwork for the sectional conflict and the Civil War
b. All states north of Maryland ended slavery
b.i. Some at once (Massachusetts) and some gradually (New Yo
Secession
a. Popular theory in the south: states came into the union from the
ratification and that state was an independent sovereign state and they did
not surrender it to the national government
a.i. If it is in the states best interest, it can secede
John Brown
a. He led a raid on an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA in 1859
a.i. It was stopped and he was hanged
a.ii. This sparked excitement in the north and south
b. He was depicted as a martyr in the north and a villain in the south
c. This was the final
1862 War
1861 cleanup: After Bull Run
o Theaters of war
East-basically Virginia
Union-Army of the Potomac
CSA-Army of Northern Virginia
West-Tennessee, Missouri and Georgia
Union-Army of the Tennessee (river)
CSA-Army of Tennessee
The east is what
