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- 1. Later Phase – 1863 to End Technology, Medicine, and Society http://www.clangrant-us.org/ulysses_s_grant.htmhttp://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/sherman.html
- 2. Open the “Focus Points” document – it will tell you what topics you are expected to recognize once you’re done. If you see an audio icon, click on it. Some slides have narration; some do not. Review the slide show and take notes in your preferred format. If you are given a notes outline, please use it.
- 3. Continued Union failure in the East • Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville • Stonewall Jackson killed by friendly fire Continued success in the West • Forces under Ulysses S. Grant won Forts Henry and Donelson & Shiloh • Capture of New Orleans gave Union full control of Mississippi River
- 4. “The proportions of this rebellion were not for a long time understood. I saw that it involved the greatest difficulties, and would call forth all the powers of the whole country.” --June 2, 1863
- 5. Second planned invasion of Northern soil Distract Union from war in the West End civilian support for the war Gettysburg, PA – supply of shoes in town Union already had the high ground
- 6. "Seconds are centuries, minutes ages. Men fire into each other's face, not five feet apart. There are bayonet thrusts, sabre strokes, pistol shots...men going down on their hands and knees, spinning round like tops, throwing out their arms, gulping blood, falling; legless, armless, headless. There are ghastly heaps of dead men."- Survivor of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
- 9. Last major offensive action of the armies of the CSA Outcome was so bad for South, Lee offered to resign Forced South to return to a defensive strategy Union troops’ numerical advantage overwhelmed South Lincoln defined vision of postwar America
- 10. “We have met a man this time, who either does not know when he is whipped, or who cares not if he loses his whole army.” – Southern soldier “I cannot spare this man. He fights.” – Abraham Lincoln
- 11. …on February 26, 1864 Congress resurrected the rank of lieutenant general, held previously only by George Washington. …Lincoln was heard to say, "I don't know General Grant's plans, and I don't want to know them. Thank God, I've got a general at last!" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UlyssesSGrant http://sachemlibrary.org/department/reference/advisor/Linc http://faculty.css.edu/mkelsey/usgrant/rank.html
- 12. “The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” Not afraid of casualties Understands Northern advantages • Forces Lee to keep men in the field Uses war of attrition to his advantage • Sieges of Vicksburg and Petersburg can’t be broken by smaller Confederate forces • Movement on Richmond (Confederate capital) Shift to “total war” approach
- 13. All available resources (people and materials) are dedicated to the war effort. Civilians are targeted along with military. http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_art_of_war_is_simple_enough-find_out_where/150884.html Total War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and we must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. – William T. Sherman, about the burning of Atlanta
- 14. “If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman
- 15. Divide upper South from lower South Deprive Confederacy of crops, supplies, materials, transportation http://langecivilwar4b.wikispaces.com/Shermans+March+to+the+Sea
- 16. Grant surrounds Richmond Grant, Sherman, Sheridan on the move Sheridan’s forces surround Lee’s army Lee offers surrender, April 9th, 1865. The last Confederate army did not surrender until June of 1865. http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Appomattox-Virginia-House-McLean.htm
- 17. Outnumbered, outgunned, outspent RRDs, telegraph, rifles made Fabian strategy (avoiding battles) useless Would not use guerrilla warfare until end Confederate gov’t made it hard to coordinate efforts http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2800/2889/2889.htm
- 22. How the war affected everyday life
- 24. Both sides were forced to use conscription (the draft) to fill their ranks. • South – Spring of 1862, North – 1863 • Draft riots in NYC – worst riots in US history Both sides allowed the wealthy to avoid the draft by paying a fine or hiring a substitute. • South – needed plantation farming • North – immigrants often enlisted multiple times
- 26. 620,000 + men died (1 in 4 soldiers); one-third from battle wounds Fatalities - Three of five Union soldiers and two of three Confederate soldiers died of disease and infection, not battle wounds (yellow fever, malaria, small pox, typhoid, dysentery, to name a few) The nickname, “sawbones” comes from this era The only available treatment for injury: Amputation
- 30. http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Drummer-Civil-Boys-War.htm While watching these battle lines so grand to look upon, but so terrible to think of when you remember the frightful waste of human lives they caused, the call came; "Bring the stretchers, a man hurt." Myself and Demas took the stretchers to look for the man, … who proved to be Bradford (our older brother) .... We were little more than children and the shock to us can be better imagined than described. …We carried him to the shallow ditch by the railroad a few rods to the rear, where the temporary field hospital was located… We then placed him in an ambulance still alive and conscious. We bid him goodbye and never saw him again. He only lived a short time and occupies an unknown grave.
- 31. Nursing opens to women • Influenced by example of Florence Nightingale • Clara Barton – American Red Cross founder • Catholic nuns – treated all victims Women in charge of the home front Spies • Harriet Tubman
- 32. “What could I do but go with them [the soldiers], or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.” “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.”
- 33. Morrill Tariff Act Homestead Act of 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act Pacific Railway Act – 1863 National Bank Act Laws to encourage western settlement that the South couldn’t block in Congress
- 34. Increased industrialization of North • Shortage of labor • Increased mechanization (using machines) • Bigger gap between wealthy and poor Destruction of Southern infrastructure/ economy Freedom for black Americans; backlash and resentment from whites Growth of the West and rise of farmers’ groups
- 35. Oh, I'm a good old rebel Now that’s just what I am And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn. I'm glad I fit (fought) against 'er I only wish we'd won I ain't asked any pardon For anything I've done. I hates the Yankee nation And eveything they do I hates the declaration Of independence too. I hates the glorious union 'Tis dripping with our blood I hates the striped banner And fit (fought) it all I could. I rode with Robert E. Lee For three years there about Got wounded in four places And I starved at Pint Lookout. I coutch the roomatism Campin' in the snow But I killed a chance of Yankees And I'd like to kill some mo'. Three hundred thousand Yankees Is stiff in southern dust We got three hundred thousand Before they conquered us. They died of southern fever And southern steel and shot I wish they was three million Instead of what we got. I can't take up my musket And fight 'em down no mo' But I ain't a-goin' to love 'em Now that is serten sho. (certain sure.) And I don't want no pardon For what I was and am I won't be reconstructed And I do not give a damn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAfHig PsC_s
- 36. “The Veteran in a New Field”