1. For the South Wanted to command army Not a “people” person
Alienated most people
Jefferson Davis

2. Robert E. Lee/Traveler

3. West Point Grad
Lincoln asked him to command the Union forces
He could not fight against his fellow Virginians
Commanded the Army of North Virginia
He was a slaveholder

4. “It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it
“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” (Lee, after Fredericksburg)

5. Stonewall Jackson He was Lee’s right hand man
Killed at Chancellorsville
Longstreet replaces him

6. James Longstreet He was NOT a Virginian
He was a pragmatic fighter—didn’t subscribe to the Virginia code of honor

7. Pierre Beauregard Albert Sidney Johnston (Shiloh)

8. For the North Had never held executive office
Considered a backwoodsmen by many
Had great personal style—was a people person

9. General Winfield Scott “Old Fuss and Feathers”
He devised the Anaconda Plan
He was replaced by McClellan
By the time of the Civil War he was too fat to mount his horse

10. Anaconda Plan

11. Merrimack (Virginia)
Ironclad
Early sub
No. had
Monitor

12. General George McClellan
“My dear McClellan: If you don’t want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln.:
Replaced after Antietam
He had not moved quickly enough, and the battle turned into the bloodiest EVER

13. General AmbroseBurnside
Replace McClellan after Antietam
Attacked at Fredericksburg
Lost large part of army
Asked to be replaced

14. General Thomas Hooker He allowed women to follow the camp
They became know as “Hooker’s girls”

15. General Meade
He failed to follow Lee and end the war after Gettysburg

16. U.S. Grant
“Find out where your enemy is. Get there as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.”

17. Unconditional surrender Grant
“I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest” (after Shiloh

18. George Sherman
March to the Sea
Path of destruction
“War is Hell.”