Decisions of the Civil War
Read Chapter 14
A. Causes - "Where Historians Disagree"
- "Irrepressible Conflict" vs. revisionists
- "two distinct and incompatible civilizations"
- "incapable of living together in peace"
- "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men" ideology inevitable
- "blundering generation" made mistakes
- party system collapsed, South feared Republicans
- "ethnocultural" issues were as important as slavery
- "Firebells in the night"
B. Secession
- Buchanan "confused and indecisive"
- Lincoln to preserve union
- Fort Sumter 4:30 am April 12, 1861
- Beauregard vs Anderson
C. "The Civil War" by Ken Burns
- 9 episodes on PBS Sept. 23-27, 1990
- narrated by David McCullough
- interviews by Shelby Foote
- heroic and futile nature of the conflict
- many reasons to fight, but fatalistic
- Lincoln, Butler, Davis, McClellan
- Sullivan Ballou letter 7/14/61
D. The Anaconda Plan
- Lincoln's strategy memo 7/23/61 and map
- Gideon Welles - blockade
- Butler - Hatteras 8/28/61
- Ericsson - Monitor built 10/25/61
- Grant - river war 2/6/62
- Sam Pook - turtle "Cincinnati"
- Farragut - New Orleans 4/24/62
E. "Audacity" Lee
- Peninsula campaign 3/17/62
- Malvern Hill 7/1/62
- Jackson - valley campaign 8/30/62
- Maryland invasion 9/5/62
- Antietam 9/17/62
- Fredericksburg 12/13/62
- Gettysburg 7/3/63 - Lee's Plan
- Ted Turner film 1993
F. Mobilization
- Montgomery Meigs - uniforms, shoes, horses, hospitals
- Adm. John Dahlgren - Washington Naval Yard
- Herman Haupt - USMRR
- Jay Cooke - savings bond
- Income tax, Greenbacks
- Women as nurses, teachers, clerks
- Mary Edwards Walker
- U. S. Sanitary Commission volunteers
- Bureau of Colored Troops 5/22/63
- Fort Wagner 7/18/63
- Glory film
G. U. S. Grant
- Use all resources on 1000 mile front
- Wilderness to Petersburg
- Chattanooga to Atlanta
- Sherman's March - Ken Burns
- Kit Carson in West
- Phil Sheridan in the Valley
- Appomattox 4/9/65
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