Chapter 15

 Balanced cabinet with different opinions! (Seward!)  Politics as Usual…  Radical Republicans (Stevens)  Peace Democrats/Copperheads  Lincoln suspends liberties: martial law, writs of habeas corpus  Ex parte Merryman, Ex Parte Milligan  Clemant Vallandingham?

 North: 3% tax on incomes over $800, direct tax on states, $140 million of loans, excise taxes on products and services, 1863 overhaul banking system. Borrowed $2.2 Billion! $431 million in “greenbacks” issued  End of war cost of living DOUBLED in North!  South: Loans and bonds, inflated currency. States’ rights philosophy HURT here, too. BLOCKADE hurt ability to raise money through tariffs. Only covered 2% of needs with taxation! Borrowed heavily. HOPING for help from BRITAIN.

 November 1861: USS San Jacinto stops a British vessel, the Trent, on its way to negotiations with CSA in London (Mason and Slidell arrested!)  Lincoln’s response?

 Fort Sumter: Causes and effects  “Anaconda Plan:” Whose idea was it? How specifically did it work?  First Battle of Bull Run  Shiloh: Causes, effects, and leaders  McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign and early attempts to take Richmond  Antietam :Causes, effects, and leaders  Emancipation Proclamation: what did it do? What did it NOT do? Why was it also a MILITARY move?  NYC Draft Riots: causes and effects  African American Soldiers: How and why were they used in the war?  Gettysburg: Causes, effects, and leaders  Vicksburg: Causes, effects, and leaders  Women in Wartime  Medicine during wartime  Prisoners of War: Spotlight on the Andersonville Prison  Grant’s Wilderness Campaign: Causes, effects, and leaders  Sherman’s March to the Sea: Causes, effects, and leaders  Surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA and the RESULTS of the war for all sides

 Fort Henry and Ft. Donelson, Feb  Merrimac vs. Monitor, March 1862, VA  Shiloh, Tennessee  New Orleans, 1862, General Farragut  Peninsular Campaign: March –July 1862, Southern VA  2 nd Battle of Bull Run (VA) August 1862  Emancipation Proclamation: Sept. 23, 1862 (went into effect on January 1, 1863)

 Fredericksburg: Central VA, General Burnside  Chancellorsville, General Hooker, Jackson is mistakenly killed!  Vicksburg: July 1863, Mississippi, all of Mississippi River in UNION control  Gettysburg; July 1863, Lee retreats  Chattanooga, Nov  Grant promoted in March 1864, assault on Richmond  Wilderness, Central VA, GRANT states, “I propose…”  Petersburg, South of Richmond (VA), siege of Petersburg  Atlanta to Savannah Sept-Dec 1864, Sherman destroys Atlanta, marches to SEA  Lee surrenders, April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House, VA, surrenders to GRANT