Lesson 2 Flashcards
Battle of Ironclads
- Confederate army built a ship made of ironclad and named it the Virginia
- March 8, 1862 Virginia attacked Union ships in Chesapeake Bay
- Union had ironclad ship named the Monitor
- March 9, 1862, the two ironclad ships met in a stalemate
Battle of Shiloh
- Confederates strike first in order to surprise enemy and not allow reinforcements to come
- 2 armies suffered more than 23,000 casualties- wounded, captured, or missing people
- After this battle Union troops laid siege to Corinth, forcing Confederates to withdraw, well on its way to controlling Miss. River
- April 6, 1862, General Sidney Johnson and PGT Beauregard led their troops to attack
Capturing New Orleans
- After Confederates lost, they lost the Miss. River and it was under Union control
- Union naval force captured New Orleans, Louisiana under David Farragut
- Stopped the Confederacy from moving goods from the river to sea
- Left Vicksburg, Miss. as the only major obstacle left for the Union’s west strategy
Battle of Antietam
- single deadliest battle
- General Lee split his army into 4 parts in order to confuse General McClellan
- Lees orders were later found
- Sept. 17, 1862, 2 armies met at Sharpsburg, Maryland
- Lee retreated to Virginia, abandoning his attempt to invade the North
- Union victory
Lee was for who
Confederacy
McClellan was for who
Union
Abolitionist wanted what? Who were these abolitionists?
Lincoln to make the Civil War a fight to end slavery
Believed Britain and France would be less willing to support South if Lincoln said war was to end slavery
Frederick Douglass and Horace Greeley
•Constitution didn’t give Lincoln power to end slavery
But what did it do
It gave him the power to take property from an enemy during war. Enslaved people were considered property
Emancipation Proclamation
Sept. 22, 1862 Lincoln said he would issue the Emancipation Proclamation
All enslaved people in Rebel-held territory would be freed on Jan 1,1863
Didn’t free enslaved people right away
Only for places held by Confederacy; Lincoln had no power there
Wasn’t for border states
Changed focus of war from getting the South back but to freeing enslaved people
Battle of Bull Run
- 30,000 UNION troops commanded by General McDowell attack Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard
- Spectators from Washington could watch fight from a safe distance
- Jackson was given nickname “Stonewall”
- After Union loss, Lincoln named a new general, George B. McClellan to lead his army in the east- called Army of Potomac
- After Union loss, Lincoln signed 2 bills requesting 1 million soldiers to serve for 3 years
