Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Civil War
Anmerkungen:
- EXCITEMENT FOR WAR
THE WAR BEGINS
EUROPEAN INTERVENTION
WESTERN THEATRE
FORT HENRY AND FORT DONELSON
ULYSSES S. GRANT IN THE WEST
UNION DRIVES INTO THE " "
SHILOH
STONE'S RIVER (MURFREESBORO)
EASTERN THEATRE
SEVEN PINES
SEVEN DAYS' BATTLE
SECOND BULL RUN
GENERAL McCLELLAN
- EXCITEMENT FOR WAR
- People went on picnics to watch Bull Run
- Thought the war would be ended with one glorious battle
- THE WAR BEGINS
- Battle of Bull Run (Manassass)
- Virginia-- July 21, 1861
- North- Irwin McDowell v.s. South- S-pierre Beauregard
- "Battle of Blunder" very shameful mistake
- North takes Henery Hill and believes the war is over
- Confederate Reinforcmeents arrive and General McDowell orders retreat.
- "Stonewall" Thomas Jackson
- "Battle of Blunders"
- North and South lead to MANY mistakes
- Significance:
- 1. South becomes over confident; could've taken
Washington DC
- 2. Battle Sobers the North and
they prepare for a long war.
- romanticism; war is real with death;
southern boys fight.
- Civil War first TOTAL WAR in history.
- 1. First where major battles routinely involved 100,000 troops.
- 2. Troops and war effort only sustained through the efforts of civilian society as a whole.
- people back home working and sending support
- 3. When Fighting had ended, few Americans had not been
personally touched by the bloody conflict, and society had been
fundamentally changed
- Jacob's Dinner Table
- many family trees were cut off during the Civil War
- 600,000
- North Changes Leadership
- 1. Geoarge McClellan -- "Little Napoleon"
- EUROPEAN INTERVENTION
- Secretary of State Seward
- Warned European Countries against
interfering with America's internal affairs
- WESTERN THEATRE
- South -- Albert Sidney Johnston in charge,
- Henry Halleck -- Northern commander in West
- FORT HENRY AND FORT DONELSON
- Ulysses S. Grant -- General ordered to take forts.
Simon Buckner -- Confederate commander at
Donelson.
- Grant demands an "Unconditional Surrender"
- Buckner gave up and was taken prisoner
- Importance of Fort Donelson
- 1. First major Northern Victory
- 2. Opened Tenn. for Union invasion.
- 3. Grant becomes important Union General!
- UNION DRIVES INTO THE " "
- North-- U.S. Grant v.s. Albert S. Johnston
- SHILOH
- GENERAL LEW WALLACE (HOOSIER) (BEN HUR)
- Tennessee April 6-7, 1862
- Grant's army surprised by Johnston and
almost overran the first day.
- "Hornet's Nest" (the bullets flying like hornets)
- grove of tress defended by Union that if lost would've
opened the flank (side or rear of a position) of the Union
Army (South)
- Johnston's Death: shot in thigh with mini ball and bled
to death (Beauregard takes over)
- Bloody Pond"
- 1. Undeclared area of truce about the land size of
BHS where doctors would work on ALL soldiers
- 2. "flood"
- Still Americans
- Significance:
- 1. Loss of Johnston
- 2. North turns defeat into victory!
- STONE'S RIVER (MURFREESBORO)
- Tennessee December 31,1862
- North-- William Resorcan's
South-- Braxton Bragg
- Bloodiest one day in the West:
25,000 (Casualties: 14N, 11S)
- 1. Casualties: killed,
wounded, or missing
- EASTERN THEATRE
- Stalemate! --- the North
and South are tied!!!
- SEVEN PINES
- Joe Johnston (South) wounded and gives LEE (Robert
E. Lee) chance to command!
- SEVEN DAYS' BATTLE
- Virginia June 25 - July 1,1862
- North-- George McClellan vs South-- LEE
(aided by "Stonewall")
- Lee Attacked McClellan 7 consecutive days
- Southern victory; saved Richmond from capture
- McClellan replaced by John Pope.
- SECOND BULL RUN
- Virginia Aug. 29 - 30, 1862
- North-- John Pope vs South-- Lee
- Southern victory; McClellan again takes over
- Lincoln comes under criticism.
- 1. Lincoln keeps switching leaders
- 2. North Keeps loosing battles
- GENERAL McCLELLAN
- "the slows"