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Advantages and Strategies in Early Civil War Battles: North vs. South

This chapter explores the differing economies, strategies, and battle outcomes during the early years of the American Civil War. It highlights Union advantages, such as industrial capacity, population, and naval strength, contrasted with Confederate strengths, including military leadership and home-field advantage. Key battles, including Bull Run and Shiloh, are examined along with Lincoln's approach to border states and the significance of strategies like the Anaconda Plan. The chapter emphasizes the evolving nature of warfare and the complexities of this pivotal conflict.

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Advantages and Strategies in Early Civil War Battles: North vs. South

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  1. Chapter 11 Section 1- Resources, Strategies, and Early Battles

  2. QOTD • How did the economies of the North and South differ?

  3. Union Advantages • Population • Industry supported war • Coal and iron mines • West- gold and silver

  4. Union Advantages • Union had factories to produce ammo, guns, uniforms, med supplies, RR cars • Move troops and material on RR

  5. Union Advantages • Navy- 250 warships plus more under construction • South had no navy, vulnerable to blockade • Est. gov’t with good leaders

  6. Confederate Advantages • Fight for survival • Believe in the cause • “The War of Northern Aggression”

  7. Confederate Advantages • Strong leaders- Robert E. Lee • Did not need to conquer the North • Home field advantage/ defensive war

  8. Confederate Advantages • The North had to defend D.C. • Only the Potomac River separated Confederacy from the US capital

  9. Confederate Strategies • Preserve small army • Erode the Union will to fight • Win recognition from France and GB

  10. Confederate Strategies • Trade with GB and France • South needs textiles • GB and Fr. need cotton • Confederates want military aid from GB and France

  11. Union Strategies • Gen. Winfield Scott • Anaconda Plan- blockade Southern ports to starve South of income and supplies • Drive south along MS River

  12. Union Advantages • Union control of MS would split the Confederacy in 2

  13. QOTD • What is a border state?

  14. Lincoln Avoids the Slavery Issue • Border states- allow slavery but have not joined the Confederacy. • Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland • Union wants to prevent their secession

  15. Lincoln Avoids the Slavery Issue • Felt he had no right to free the slaves, nor did he want to • Only goal: save the Union • Outcome: kept border states loyal to Union

  16. Bull Run/Manassas • July 1861- battle outside D.C. • 2 armies met at a creek called Bull Run • Stonewall Jackson makes a stand against the Union

  17. Bull Run/ Manassas • South wins, Union retreats • War would not be quick • Lincoln calls for more troops and places George McClellan in charge

  18. U.S. Grant and Tennessee • Feb. 1862- MS valley part of the Anaconda Plan • Captures Ft. Henry and Donelson • Boost Northern morale • Drove Confederates from western KY and TN

  19. Shiloh • April 1862- SW Tenn. • 2 day battle • 25,000 Confederate and Union soldiers wounded or dead • Damaged Grant’s rep

  20. The Union captures New Orleans • David Farragut captures New Orleans • Farragut and Grant attempt to capture Vicksburg, MS • Both are stopped by Confederates

  21. Fighting in the Southwest • 1862- Confederates march up Rio Grande to force Union out of SW • Defeated at Glorieta Pass • Confederate supply chain destroyed

  22. Naval Warfare • March 9, 1862- Monitor battles against the Virginia

  23. Text Me • Who do you think has the edge in the Civil War so far?

  24. QOTD • How do you think that slaves in the North and South reacted to the Civil War?

  25. Fighting in the East • McClellan plans drive on Richmond (Confederate capital) • Lincoln wants him to act • Peninsular Campaign- sail across the Chesapeake, march on Richmond

  26. The Seven Days • June 26-July 2 • Union repelled by Lee’s forces • McClellan retreats to D.C.

  27. Second Battle of Bull Run • Lincoln replaces McClellan with Ambrose Burnside • Stonewall outmaneuvers Union • South crushes North • Lincoln reinstates McClellan

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