1. Four Years of Fighting (Part 2)
I. War in the West
1. Goals
a. Control the Mississippi River
b. Control New Orleans
c. Cut the South in half

2. I. War in the West continued…
2. Battles in the “West”
a. Shiloh (Tennessee)
-Union victory
b. New Orleans
-Admiral David Farragut
c. Vicksburg Mississippi
-Union Controlled Mississippi R.
-Union cut South in half
-U.S. Grant
-Chattanooga
-U.S. Grant victory

3. II. The War at Sea 1. Goal a. Blockade -cut Confederate trade
-Atlantic
-Gulf of Mexico
-decline in cotton export
-no foreign war supplies
b. New age of Naval warfare
-steel warships
-Virginia (S) vs. Monitor (N)

4. III. Union Victory 1. Union missions accomplished:
a. Controlled Mississippi
b. Successful blockade
2. Final Goal:
a. Split the south in half
-General Sherman
-”March to the Sea”
-Tennessee to Georgia
-Destroy everything along the way
-General Grant
-”Wilderness Campaign”
-March to Richmond VA
b. Confederate Surrender
-General Lee to General Grant
-Appomattox Courthouse

5. Questions
1. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Union in the Civil War?
2. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Confederacy in the Civil
War?
3. Why was the Civil War so long and so costly?
4. What strategies were incorporated to enable the Union to win the war?