Chapter 15
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Balanced cabinet with different opinions!
(Seward!)
Politics as Usual…
Radical Republicans (Stevens)
 Peace Democrats/Copperheads
 Lincoln suspends liberties: martial law, writs of
habeas corpus
 Ex parte Merryman, Ex Parte Milligan
 Clemant Vallandingham?
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North: 3% tax on incomes over $800, direct tax on
states, $140 million of loans, excise taxes on
products and services, 1863 overhaul banking
system. Borrowed $2.2 Billion! $431 million in
“greenbacks” issued
End of war cost of living DOUBLED in North!
South: Loans and bonds, inflated currency. States’
rights philosophy HURT here, too. BLOCKADE
hurt ability to raise money through tariffs. Only
covered 2% of needs with taxation! Borrowed
heavily. HOPING for help from BRITAIN.
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November 1861: USS San Jacinto stops a
British vessel, the Trent, on its way to
negotiations with CSA in London (Mason and
Slidell arrested!)
Lincoln’s response?
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Fort Sumter: Causes and effects
“Anaconda Plan:” Whose idea was it? How specifically did it work?
First Battle of Bull Run
Shiloh: Causes, effects, and leaders
McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign and early attempts to take Richmond
Antietam :Causes, effects, and leaders
Emancipation Proclamation: what did it do? What did it NOT do? Why was it also a
MILITARY move?
NYC Draft Riots: causes and effects
African American Soldiers: How and why were they used in the war?
Gettysburg: Causes, effects, and leaders
Vicksburg: Causes, effects, and leaders
Women in Wartime
Medicine during wartime
Prisoners of War: Spotlight on the Andersonville Prison
Grant’s Wilderness Campaign: Causes, effects, and leaders
Sherman’s March to the Sea: Causes, effects, and leaders
Surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA and the RESULTS of the war for all sides
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Fort Henry and Ft. Donelson, Feb. 1862
Merrimac vs. Monitor, March 1862, VA
Shiloh, Tennessee
New Orleans, 1862, General Farragut
Peninsular Campaign: March –July 1862,
Southern VA
2nd Battle of Bull Run (VA) August 1862
Emancipation Proclamation: Sept. 23, 1862
(went into effect on January 1, 1863)
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Fredericksburg: Central VA, General Burnside
Chancellorsville, General Hooker, Jackson is mistakenly
killed!
Vicksburg: July 1863, Mississippi, all of Mississippi River in
UNION control
Gettysburg; July 1863, Lee retreats
Chattanooga, Nov. 1863
Grant promoted in March 1864, assault on Richmond
Wilderness, Central VA, GRANT states, “I propose…”
Petersburg, South of Richmond (VA), siege of Petersburg
Atlanta to Savannah Sept-Dec 1864, Sherman destroys
Atlanta, marches to SEA
Lee surrenders, April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House,
VA, surrenders to GRANT