The War 1861-65 Flashcards
What would the 4 non-seceding slave States have added to Confed industrial capacity
80%
Comparative populations 1861
22 million in North, 9 million in South (5.5 million white)
Fraction of all West Point Graduates that were from the North 1820-60
2/3
Comparative factory numbers in 1860
North had 6 times
Comparative productive capacity 1860
North had 10x
Comparative miles of railway track 1860
North had double
Comparative production of wheats and oats
North produced 80% of total
Month of Baltimore Confrontation
April 1861
Fatalities at Baltimore 1861
4 soldiers and 12 civilians
Who won June elections in Maryland
Unionists
% of Delaware’s population that was slave
2%
Kentucky’s initial stance on secession
Neutrality
Confederate invasion of Kentucky, date and site
September 1861, took Colombus
1861, suggestion of Missouri joining Confed
Pro-Confed governor called for 50,000 volunteers to defend the state against the Union
Key Unionist figures in Missouri (2)
Congressmen Francis Blair and Nathaniel Lyon
Comparative naval ships tonnage, ratio
Union 25:1 Confed
Comparative fire arms production, 1861, ratio
Union 32:1 Confed
Comparative cotton production, 1861, ratio
Union 1:24 Confed
Size of Confederacy
750,000 square miles
Confed advantages heading into the war (5)
Size Defending Slavery Cotton Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky
Size of Union army in 1861
16,000 scattered in West
Size of Union war department 1861
90 men
April 1861, number of volunteers requested by Lincoln
75,000 for 3 months
July 1861, Lincoln’s call for further troops, number
500,000 for 3 years
Who had better state militias
South
Number of officers leaving army for Confederacy
300
Feb 1861, number of volunteers requested by Davis
100,000 for a year
May 1861, Davis’ further call for troops
400,000 for 3 year
April 1861, number of Muskets in South
160,000
Northern introduction of militia law, month
July 1862
Date of conscription for N and S
N March 1863
S March 1862
Proportion of total men fighting who were conscripts
1/10
Total size of Confed army up to 1865
900,000
Total size of Union army up to 1865
2.1 million
Name of old-fashioned musket
Smoothbore musket
Range of smoothbore musket
100 yards
Range of new rifles from 1861
600 yards
Year when both sides had rifle-muskets
1863
Name of Ordnance Chief for Union 1861-62
Chief Ripley
Change in tactics with new guns, from what to what
Mass formation to trenches
Number of bullets fired in a week in May 1864 in North Virginia
19 million
Comparative size of Calvary (% of total troops)
20% Confed , 15% Union
Key Confed cavalry commanders
Jeb Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest
Different infrastructures for the two cavalries
Union, some in each unit
Confed, kept as a single unit
Geographical features that benefited Confed (2)
Appalachian Mountains
Shenandoah valley
April 1861, Union navy ships and men
90 ships but not all ready, 8800 men
Number of Union ships by Dec 1861
260 on duty, 100 more under construction
Reasons for Confed naval inferiority (2)
No shipbuilding capacity
No previous navy
Union Navy Secretary, name
Gideon Welles
Name of Scott’s blockade plan
Anaconda plan
Miles of Southern coastline
3500
Capture of New Orleans, month
April 1862
Significance of New Orleans to Confed
Key exporter at mouth of Mississippi
Largest town
Confed Navy Secretary, name
Stephen Mallory
Name of Confed ironclad
Merrimack but became Virginia
Union control of Mississippi by August 1862
All except 150 mile stretch between Vicksburg and port Hudson
Nickname for Confed and Union soldiers
Johnny Reb
Billy Yank
% of Union troops born overseas
20
% of Union troops that were African American by 1865
10
% of Confed soldiers that were native born
95
Average age of soldiers in war
25
% of men between 18 and 30
80%
Colour of Union uniforms
Blue
Colours of Confed army
Grey or butternut
Breakdown of deaths
360,000 total deaths, 67,000 killed in action, 43,000 died of wounds and 224,000 died of disease
Name of Confed Hospital established
Chimborazo Hospital
Capacity of Chimborazo Hospital
8,000
Number of women working as nurses in the war
3,200
Name of of most reputable female nurse
Clara Barton
Comparative desertion rates
1 in 7 Confed, 1 in 10 Union
Year of suspension of prisoner exchange
1863
Reasons for suspension of Union suspension of prisoner exchange (2)
Violations of agreements
South gained more from exchange than North
Name of notorious Confederate prison camp
Andersonville
Number of inmates in Andersonville
50,000
Number of Union soldiers imprisoned, of which died
195,000 of which 30,000 died
Number of Confed prisoners taken, of which died
215,000 and 26,000 died
