War Extras

Question 1

Effect of conscription opposition (4)

Answer 1

Exemptions introduced to conscription act
92% of all state official exempt from those 2 states
Most unpopular act by Confederate gov
Passed on April 16 1862

Question 2

Financing war from taxes for Union and Confederate

Answer 2

8% from tax for Confed

20% in Union

Question 3

Turnover in S government (3)

Answer 3

Only 3 in cabinet throughout
4 Secretaries of State
6 secretaries of war

Question 4

Grants use of troops (6)

Answer 4

Wilderness Campaign
May-June 1864
50,000 Union losses, 25,000 Confed
Union still won
16,000 captured at fort Doneslon out West in Feb 1862
Butcher Grant from Mary Lincoln for wanting unconditional surrender

Question 5

Destruction by Sherman and Sheridan (4)

Answer 5

Philip Sheridan in Shenandoah
William T Sherman captured Atlanta
Shermans 'March to the Sea' Nov-Dec 1864
285 miles and $100 million of damage
Passed 40 Acres and A Mule Act

Question 6

Bad Union Commanders (4)

Bad Confed Commanders (3)

Answer 6

C General John Bell Hood
C General Joseph E Johnston
C General Braxton Bragg
U Major General George B McClellan
U General George Meade
U General Joe Hooker
U General Ambrose Burnside

Question 7

Confederate military success (3)

Answer 7

Won first battle, 1st Manassas
Union didn’t win until Jan 1862 at Mill Springs in Kentucky
Successes such as Chancellorsville

Question 8

Food Production in North (2)

Answer 8

2.5 million new acres used in 1862-64

Wheat and corn exports doubled

Question 9

Production of armaments (3)

Answer 9

Confed imported 60% of small arms
Union produced 32 times more arms than the the confederacy
North produced 97% of firearms

Question 10

Railway production (3)

Answer 10

North had double
In 1860, 19/470 trains made in South
North possessed 96% of railroad equipment

Question 11

Governors of North Carolina and Georgia (2)

Answer 11

Zebulon Vance, elected in September 1862

Joseph E Brown, in power from 1857-65

Question 12

Impressment (5)

Answer 12

Passed by Confed congress in March 1863
10% of all produce
Generated $62 million between 1863-65
Even impressed slaves
Georgia declared it unconstitutional

Question 13

Loss of troops (4)

Answer 13

Confed, 25% injured, 25% died
260,000 total dead in Confed
365,000 in Union
1/3 of deaths from action or wounds

Question 14

Ordnance Bureau (6)

Answer 14

Josiah Gorgas, from North
Tredegar iron works was only large enough iron producer
Produced almost no gunpowder
Managed to purchase many from Europe
No effect on war by summer of 1862 but quality still poor
Melted church bells for cannons

Question 15

Food shortages in Confederacy (5)

Answer 15

Lucius B Northrop responsible for provision
High prices at home, shortages at front
‘Most cussed and vilified man in the Confederacy’
Battle of Cedars Creek in Oct 1864
Battle of 5 Forks in April 1865 (both lost due to shortages)

Question 16

Sherman (5)

Answer 16

William T Sherman
Served under Grant in West
Made commander of West in 1864
Captured Atlanta
March to the Sea

Question 17

Sheridan (6)

Answer 17

Philip Sheridan
Commander of infantry division in West
Commander of cavalry in Potomac
Commander of Army of Shenandoah
Only 30 at start of war
Became General in chief in 1883

Question 18

Blockade management by Confed (5)

Answer 18

Cotton diplomacy
Cotton production reduced so mor food and to encourage Britain to beak blockade
Did not sell cotton when blockade was weak
90% fall in European imports of American cotton by 1862
Allowed blockade runners to bring in luxury goods upto 1863

Question 19

Shenandoah Valley Campaign (4)

Answer 19

Virginia and West Virginia
Philip Sheridan replaced Hunter by Grant
August - Oct 1864
Cedar Creek, Oct 19th Early defeated 2/3 of Union army, hungry troops broke ranks to get food from camp, Sheridan reversed losses later in the day

Question 20

Anaconda Plan (6)

Answer 20

Proposed by Winfield Scott
Only 25% successful
3000 miles of coastline
Seized Fernandina in Florida in March 1862 to launch operations
Confed already abandoned most coastal towns
Effect debated

Question 21

Naval War (5)

Answer 21

Gideon Welles v Stephen Mallory
25:1 naval ship tonnage
Confed had first ironclad, Virgina from Merrimack
Alabama and Florida commerce raiders sunk 200 ships
Union gun boats dominated Mississippi and controlled most by 1862

Question 22

Initial call to arms (4)

Answer 22

100,000 for a year by Davis
75,000 for 90 days by Lincoln
Conscription in Confed April 1862
July 1862 in Union

Question 23

Confed treasury (6)

Answer 23

Christopher Memminger upto July 1864, Trenholm to April 1865
Impressment in 1863
Memminger could raise lots initially through bonds with cotton guarantee, but change in course of war resulted in loss of confidence
Few gold reserves
Taxation unpopular
Resorted to printing money