Lecture 13 – October 29, 2012 Union Strategy in 1863 & 64: Troop Movements: First, What Happened in 1863? East: Protecting DC/ Pursuing Lee’s Army West: Dividing, then Subdividing the Confederacy Vicksburg Campaign [after many attempts and a siege, Union victory 7/4/63] Chattanooga – Chickamauga campaign – [August – September 1863] Major Military Initiatives in Union’s plans for the winter & spring of 1864 Grant: Assaults on all Fronts! Simultaneous Advance on 5 Fronts: LA Mobile, AL [Banks] Chattanooga Atlanta [Sherman] Army of Potomac ANV [Grant/Meade] James River Richmond [Butler] West VA Shenandoah Valley [Sigel] – later Sheridan! Shifting Military Policy Using African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fighting Hard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley POWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy Prisons – Why Have them? Breakdown of Prisoner Exchange Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as Southern Ones? Then Talk about Prisons & Desertion
1863
Lee -vs- Meade
View of Seminary Ridge from Union position on Cemetery Hill
View of Cemetery Ridge from Confederate position on Seminary Ridge
Lecture 13 – October 29, 2012 Union Strategy in 1863 & 64: Troop Movements: First, What Happened in 1863? East: Protecting DC/ Pursuing Lee’s Army West: Dividing, then Subdividing the Confederacy Vicksburg Campaign [after many attempts and a siege, Union victory 7/4/63] Chattanooga – Chickamauga campaign – [August – September 1863] Major Military Initiatives in Union’s plans for the winter & spring of 1864 Grant: Assaults on all Fronts! Simultaneous Advance on 5 Fronts: LA Mobile, AL [Banks] Chattanooga Atlanta [Sherman] Army of Potomac ANV [Grant/Meade] James River Richmond [Butler] West VA Shenandoah Valley [Sigel] – later Sheridan! Shifting Military Policy Using African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fighting Hard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley POWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy Prisons – Why Have them? Breakdown of Prisoner Exchange Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as Southern Ones? Then Talk about Prisons & Desertion
Grant’s 1863 Strategy for Vicksburg
Siege of Vicksburg – Living in Caves
Lecture 13 – October 29, 2012 Union Strategy in 1863 & 64: Troop Movements: First, What Happened in 1863? East: Protecting DC/ Pursuing Lee’s Army West: Dividing, then Subdividing the Confederacy Vicksburg Campaign [after many attempts and a siege, Union victory 7/4/63] Chattanooga – Chickamauga campaign – [August – September 1863] Major Military Initiatives in Union’s plans for the winter & spring of 1864 Grant: Assaults on all Fronts! Simultaneous Advance on 5 Fronts: LA Mobile, AL [Banks] Chattanooga Atlanta [Sherman] Army of Potomac ANV [Grant/Meade] James River Richmond [Butler] West VA Shenandoah Valley [Sigel] – later Sheridan! Shifting Military Policy Using African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fighting Hard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley POWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy Prisons – Why Have them? Breakdown of Prisoner Exchange Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as Southern Ones? Then Talk about Prisons & Desertion
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Robert Gould Shaw
Libby Prison, Richmond, VA
Burying the Dead At Andersonville Prison
Captain Henry [Hartmann Heinrich] Wirz, Superintendent Andersonville Prison
1864 Sketch of a Union Prison Camp
Baseball at Salisbury, NC Prison Camp
Union Prisoner Released from Andersonville, Spring 1865
Philip Sheridan – Union Cavalry Commdr. chased Confederates back up the Valley (south) and laid waste to valley resources.
Georgia Campaign Grant & Lee in central Virginia