1. Chapter 15 Fighting the Civil War

2. The North STRENGTHS 4 X’s as many free citizens Industry- supplies
More than 70% of Railroads
Strong Navy / large fleet of trading ships
WEAKNESS
Invading unfamiliar land

3. The South STRENGTHS Defensive War – “home team advantage”
Hunting skills- guns, horses, rich military school
Some of the BEST officers from U.S. Army
WEAKNESSES
Few factories – North or Europe
Few railroads
Small population

4. War Strategies The North The south Blockade southern ports
Seize control of Mississippi River
Seize Richmond (capital of the confederacy)
Fight a defensive war at home
Counted on Europeans supporting them financially because cotton and other goods being traded

5. Major Battles Bull Run (Manassas) – July 21, 1861
Antietam (Sharpsburg) – September 17, 1862
(Attempted after the failed Northern Peninsula Campaign of June 1862)
Gettysburg – July 1- 3, 1863
Vicksburg – July 4, 1863
Appomattox Courthouse – April 9, 1865

6. Civilians Soldiers Life During the War
Endless marching and drilling practices
Slept on ground
Crude medical care
Infections
Crops failed
Homes destroyed
Families split up
Businesses ruined

7. Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863 – Slaves were “freed” by Lincoln
Changed the character of the war
Union was fighting against slavery as well as to save the Union

8. Gettysburg Address
The battleground was dedicated to the soldiers who died there (became a cemetery)
Lincoln gave a short speech that people didn’t
listen to.
Lincoln’s speech was not famous until later… “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain…”