Civil War Flashcards
Fredericksburg
Burnside out numbered Lee
Burnside tried to cross a river
Ft. Sumter
April, 1861
Start of the war
Robert Lee offered command
Antietam
September, 1862 Sharpsburg Maryland Bloodiest day in American history Turning point Allowed for the Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
September, 1862
Effective January, 1863
Made the war a war to free the slaves
Kept Britain out of the war
Gettysburg
July 1,2,3 , 1863
Day 2 - Chamberlain
Day 3 - Picket’s charge
Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Ended the war
Virginia
Effects of the union blockade
Stopped importation in the south
Made south desperate for victory
Lincoln
North
President
Jefferson Davis
South
President
Lee
South
General
Stonewall Jackson
South
Thomas Jackson
McClellan
North
Northern general
David Farragut
North
Naval commander that captured New Orleans
US Grant
North
Unconstitutional surrender
Important battles in the West
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
North
Hero of Day 2 at Gettysburg
Little round top
George Picket
North
Leader or Picket Charge
Day 3 Gettysburg
Border States
Maryland Missouri Kentucky Delaware West Virginia
Southern purpose of invading north
To force Lincoln to negotiate peace
Jomini strategy
Name for tactics that got so many killed
Importance of Chancellorsville
May 1863
Lee’s masterpierce
Showed Lee’s military superiority
Stonewall dies
Sherman’s march to the sea
“total war”
Atlanta to Savana
“War is all hell”
Resentment in the south for the north
Lincoln’s biggest problem in conducting war
Finding a general
Lincoln’s stated purpose of the war at outset
This is a war to save the union
“My paramount object in this struggle is to ave the union”
Effects of the emancipation proclamation
Changed the purpose of the war
Kept Britain out of the war
Antietam
Vicksburg
May 1863
Cuts the confederacy in half
“The father of waters again flows unvexed to the sea”
“The fiction of secession”
Lincoln didn’t think the south could secede
Lincoln’s plan for restoring the union
“With malice towards none, with charity for all”
Don’t kill anyone
War of attrition
Cold Harbor
Grant vs Lee
“I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free”
House divided speech
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living hear and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, an surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
First Inaugural Adress
“My trust in him is marrow deep”
On Grant
“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history”
1862 Annual message to congress
“The father of Waters again flows unvexed to the sea.”
Vicksburg, Mississippi
“With malice towards non, with charity for all…”
Second Inaugural adress
“…the great task remaining before us…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom…”
Gettysburg adress
“Those who enjoy freedom and deny it to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it.”
Letter to Henry Pierce
“The struggles of today are not altogether for today.”
Annual message to congress 1861
“We can succeed only by concert…”
1862 Annual message to congress
“I cannot spare this man, he fights”
On Grant
“Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other.”
Quoting Euclid
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray…”
Second inaugural adress
“It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work…”
Gettysburg adress
“If A can prove, however conclusively…”
Notes 1854
South advantages
Needed a draw to win
Knew the land
Leadership
Diplomacy (Britain wanted cotton and might come into war because America is weaker)
North advantages
Two million troops A navy (For blockade) Agriculture (Food) Rivers for invasion routes 90% of industry 80% of banks 75% of railroads 75% of wealth
Cold Harbor
13,500 union casualties
8,000 in eight minutes
Wilderness campaign
54,000 union casualties
