1. The Civil War

2. Group Seek & Find 1. Preparing for War P. 360 – 362
Make & Fill in your chart of Resources (strengths) of the North & South
Make & Fill in your chart of the Strategies of the North & South
Northern Resources (Strengths)
Southern Resources (Strengths)
Northern Strategies
Southern Strategies

3. Southern (Resources) Strengths
1.) Preparing for War
Northern (Resources) Strengths
Southern (Resources) Strengths

5. Rating the North & the South

6. 1.) Preparing for War Northern Strengths Southern Strengths
Existing army and navy
Large population could provide more soldiers and workers
More factories to produce supplies
Southern Strengths
Experienced military commanders (best generals)
Fighting for a strong belief in self-government and their way of life
Needed only to defend territory, not to attack

7. 1.) Preparing for War
Northern Strategies
Southern Strategies

8. 1.) Preparing for War Northern Strategies Southern Strategies
Use blockade to prevent south from trading
Gain control of the Mississippi River (Anaconda Plan)
Capture Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia
Southern Strategies
Prepare and wait, hoping union will not pursue war
Push back Union attacks until Northerners lose the will to fight
Gain support of European countries

9. Statistics Refresh: Who had the advantage?

10. Anaconda Plan
Surround the south, and cut off it’s supplies ( a huge siege)
The Anaconda Plan

11. THE ANACONDA PLAN
Union General Winfield Scott developed the first major Union strategy in the Civil War, the Anaconda Plan. Under the Anaconda Plan, the Union planned to blockade ports in the South while taking control of the land around the Mississippi river, effectively cutting off the South’s supply and distribution lines.

13. 1. ) Outline the Mississippi River in blue 2
1.) Outline the Mississippi River in blue 2.) Make red dots on the ports that were to be blockage/captured 3.) Make a purple dot on the Confederate capitol 4.) Shade the area that was to be contained by the Anaconda Plan

14. Questions What waterways and ports did Scott propose blocking?
What was the ultimate goal of Scott’s Anaconda Plan?
In what way might Scott’s Anaconda Plan have led to the quick defeat of the Confederacy?
What is meant by the metaphor of the ‘anaconda’?
Waterways - Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico as well as the Mississippi River; Forts Jackson and Saint Philip
Gain control of the Mississippi in order to cut the South’s supply lines and distribution lines
A successful execution of the Anaconda Plan would have left the South w/o the resources necessary to continue fighting
Constricting the South, much like an anaconda constricts its prey, until its life lines, or supplies, are cut off

15. Weapon
Explanation
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2.) Modern War
A war in which advancements in technology increase casualty rates

16. Modern Warfare
Colt Revolver:
fires 6 times without reloading

17. Modern Warfare Repeating Rifle:
fires 7 times without reloading & more accurate

18. Modern Warfare
Rapid fire gun
fires 65 times per minute

19. Modern Warfare
Gatling Gun
machine gun… 600 rounds per minute

20. Modern Warfare Bullets with rifling (grooves) :
More accurate, cause more damage
Gangrene Infection from war wound

21. Surgical Instruments
Red Cross Nurses

22. Modern Warfare
Shell
hollow casing filled with black powder – fuse to ignite

23. Modern Warfare Ironclad Ship
Iron plates cover wooden ship… bullet proof!

24. a. _____________ = Head general of Union forces
3. Union Leaders
a. _____________ = Head general of Union forces
i. Strategy = _____________… fight to the last man standing
Characterized by high casualty rates
Side with more resources wins
Ulysses S Grant
War of Attrition

25. b. _________________ = general of Union forces
William T. Sherman
b. _________________ = general of Union forces
i. Strategy =
_______________
_______________ … burn anything that might be useful to the enemy
ii. Infamous for _________________ : captured Atlanta and burned everything as troops marched to Savannah
Scorched Earth Policy
Sherman’s March

26. a. _______________ = President of Confederacy
Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom have always proved the most intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?
“There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.” – Robert E. Lee
4. Confederate Leaders
a. _______________ = President of Confederacy
b. ______________________ = head general of Confederate forces
i. Opposed to secession
turned down Lincoln’s offer to lead Union forces
strategy = _______________
* do not need to win… just need to tire out North
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Defensive War

27. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
c. __________________ = Confederate General
i. Strategy: uses cavalry to outflank enemy and attack supply line
ii. Accidentally shot and killed by his own troops
"Give General Jackson my affectionate regards, and say to him: he has lost his left arm but I my right." – Robert E. Lee

28. Songs of the Civil War

29. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Listen

30. Full version of Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
Chorus: His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
Chorus
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

31. John Brown’s Song
Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave, His soul is marching on.
John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave, And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save; Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave, His soul is marching on.
He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on.
John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see, Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be, And soon thruout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free, For his soul is marching on.
The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view, On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue. And heaven shall ring with anthems o’er the deed they mean to do, For his soul is marching on.
Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may, The death blow of oppression in a better time and way, For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day, And his soul is marching on.

32. Dixie Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom,
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land, where I was born in,
Early on one frosty mornin’
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land
I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
To live and die in Dixie
Away, away, away down south in Dixie
Listen

33. Full Version of Dixie
O, I wish I was in the land of cotton Old times there are not forgotten Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. In Dixie Land where I was born in Early on one frosty mornin' Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. Chorus: O, I wish I was in Dixie! Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To live and die in Dixie Away, away, Away down south in Dixie! Old Missus marry Will, the weaver, William was a gay deceiver Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. But when he put his arm around her He smiled as fierce as a forty pounder Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. Chorus
His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaver But that did not seem to grieve her Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. Old Missus acted the foolish part And died for a man that broke her heart Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land. Chorus

34. Questions:
Why do you think poet Julia Ward Howe changed the lyrics to “John Brown’s Body” to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”?
Analyze Lyrics: Why do you think Union soldiers found “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” so inspiring?
Draw Inferences: Why might Lincoln have asked for “Dixie” to be played when the war ended?