1. Johnny Rebel vs. Yankee Bill: The American Civil War
Chapter 2 Section 3

2. Lecture Focus Question
What factors and events led to the Union victory in the Civil War?

3. Rating the North & South

4. Railroad Lines, 1860

5. Resources

6. Military Forces

7. Union Soldier
“Yankee Bill”
Confederate Soldier
“Johnny Rebel”

8. Union Generals Winfield Scott Joseph Hooker Ulysses S. Grant
Irwin McDowell
George McClellan
George Meade
Ambrose Burnside

9. Nathan Bedford Forrest
Confederate Generals
“Stonewall” Jackson
Nathan Bedford Forrest
George Pickett
Jeb Stuart
James Longstreet
Robert E. Lee

10. War Strategies North Had to crush the South
Anaconda Plan: strategy to starve the South into submission
Seize the Miss. River & Gulf of Mexico → South could send/receive shipments
Seize strategic railroad junctures

11. War Strategies South South enjoyed advantage Simply had to survive
Keep Conf. armies in the field until Union armies tired of fighting

12. President Lincoln Personally opposed to slavery
Main goal was to preserve the union
Emancipation Proclamation: freed slaves in rebel states
Suspended habeas corpus
Habeas corpus: constitutional right requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge in court and have specific charges filed

13. Lincoln & Presidential Power
Without congressional approval:
He increased the size of the Army and Navy, expended funds for the purchase of weapons
instituted a blockade--an act of war
Lincoln termed these actions not the declaration of "civil war," but rather the suppression of rebellion.

14. Union Victories Battle of Gettysburg
Turning point: last time Conf. army tried to invade the North
Bloodiest battle of the war
Gettysburg Address: famous Lincoln speech which dedicated the Gettysburg cemetery
Reaffirmed ideas for which Union was fighting

15. Union Victories
Sherman’s March to the Sea: Union used strategy of total war on 400 mile march through GA and SC
Total war: strategy which targeted not only troops but all of the resources needed to feed, clothe, and support an army
Civil War is over!
President Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 in Ford’s Theatre

16. Summary
What were these notes about?
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