War Extras Flashcards
Effect of conscription opposition (4)
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
Financing war from taxes for Union and Confederate
8% from tax for Confed
20% in Union
Turnover in S government (3)
Only 3 in cabinet throughout
4 Secretaries of State
6 secretaries of war
Grants use of troops (6)
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
Destruction by Sherman and Sheridan (4)
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
Bad Union Commanders (4)
Bad Confed Commanders (3)
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
Confederate military success (3)
Won first battle, 1st Manassas
Union didn’t win until Jan 1862 at Mill Springs in Kentucky
Successes such as Chancellorsville
Food Production in North (2)
2.5 million new acres used in 1862-64
Wheat and corn exports doubled
Production of armaments (3)
Confed imported 60% of small arms
Union produced 32 times more arms than the the confederacy
North produced 97% of firearms
Railway production (3)
North had double
In 1860, 19/470 trains made in South
North possessed 96% of railroad equipment
Governors of North Carolina and Georgia (2)
Zebulon Vance, elected in September 1862
Joseph E Brown, in power from 1857-65
Impressment (5)
Passed by Confed congress in March 1863 10% of all produce Generated $62 million between 1863-65 Even impressed slaves Georgia declared it unconstitutional
Loss of troops (4)
Confed, 25% injured, 25% died
260,000 total dead in Confed
365,000 in Union
1/3 of deaths from action or wounds
Ordnance Bureau (6)
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
Food shortages in Confederacy (5)
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)
Sherman (5)
William T Sherman Served under Grant in West Made commander of West in 1864 Captured Atlanta March to the Sea
Sheridan (6)
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
Blockade management by Confed (5)
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
Shenandoah Valley Campaign (4)
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
Anaconda Plan (6)
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
Naval War (5)
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
Initial call to arms (4)
100,000 for a year by Davis
75,000 for 90 days by Lincoln
Conscription in Confed April 1862
July 1862 in Union
Confed treasury (6)
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
