Title: Incredible US History
Author: Ephron
Last saved by: Pierre.Thorsen

Incredible War & Civilization                The Not Very “Civil” War								      Mr. T (god of war)

The not very “Civil” War 
-style of warfare in 1860
-the relationship between technology & tactics
-advantages & weaknesses of the North & South
-THE RIGHT TO SECEDE & NOT SLAVERY
 WAS THE CAUSE FOR SECESSION
-why Virginian secession was almost the last
-what kept the border slave states in the Union?
-why was Ft. Sumter a politically “delicate”
  situation for Lincoln?
-“undemocratic” actions taken by
  Lincoln to prevent further rebellion or
  assistance to the South
-the North’s grand strategy to defeat the CSA
-McClellan, “Stonwall” Jackson, Forrest, Lee, 
  Sherman, Grant, Davis, Longstreet
-1861 
	1^st Bull Run/Manassas  McDowell vs. Johnston
		-CSA victory and Stonewall is born
-1862
	-Grant takes forts Donelson & Henry
	-Shiloh     Grant vs. A. Johnston
		-sobering up of both sides to the cost 
	-Farragut & New Orleans
	-McClellan and Peninsula Campaign
		-Robt. E. Lee takes command of ANV
	-Monitor vs. Merrimac 
	-2^nd Bull Run     Lee vs. Pope
		-CSA victory prompts invasion of Maryland
	-Antietum    McClellan vs. Lee
		-bloodiest day in US history
		-allowed the issuance of Emancipation
		 Proclamation
			-what is the international consequence?
	-Fredricksburg    Lee vs. Burnside
		-shows how outdated tactics are to weapons

-1863
	-Chancellorsville   Lee vs. Hooker
		-Stonewall dies
	-Vicksburg   Grant vs. Johnston
		-North now controls the Mississippi
		-prompts Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania
	-Gettysburg   Meade vs. Lee
		-this Union victory + Vicksburg turns the tide
		-ends any CSA threat of invasion of North
	-Grant becomes top Union general
	-the decentralized, states’ rights govt. of the
	  CSA hindering prosecution of the war
-1864
	-Election of 1864   Lincoln vs. McClellan
	-Atlanta falls to Sherman
		-helps Lincoln win re-election
	-Sherman’s march to the sea
-1865
	-Grant takes Petersburg and Richmond
		-prompts the end of the CSA
	-Appomattox Courthouse
		-Lee surrenders the ANV to Grant