Army Life and Weaponry

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Army Life and Weaponry
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Cannons

• Smoothbore
• Riffled
• 10,12,24,32 pounders

Oak and iron fittings
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Weaponry

• Guns flat trajectory
• Mortars high, arching
• Howitzer

Revolver
Spencer
Sabre
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Sabre
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Edged Weapons

• approximately 250,000 wounded treated in
  Union hospitals during the war only 922 were the
  victims of sabers or bayonets

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Up
Up
And Possible Blown Away!
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Camp Life

• Dangerous
• Uniforms
• Wake Up Time
• Daily Routine
• Crowding
• Disease

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Union
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Daily Life
12 ft

• Sibley Tent

• Age of Men
• Farmers
• Immigrants
• African-Americans

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War at Sea

• Ironclads
• Merrimack
• Monitor

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Union Commanders
McClellan - East
Grant - West
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Union Victories in the West
Albert S. Johnston Confederate General in the West
Fort Henry
Grant to Pittsburgh Landing (TN River) Johnston
decision
Fort Donnelson
Corinth
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The Casualties
13,000 Union 11,000 Confederate Grant Criticized
Fort Henry
Fort Donnelson
Corinth
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• Confederate Eyewitness Miller Cornfield--"Then a
  grand sight met their eyes. The number of
  regimental standards floating in the morning air
  indicated the immense numbers of the advancing
  enemy. It was a wonderful sight. . Colonel
  Douglass, fearing the result of an attack by so
  large a force on his weak brigade, ran from
  regiment to regiment exhorting the men not to
  fire until the enemy reached the fence and began
  to get over it--to shoot low and make every
  bullet count.
• Union Eyewitness Miller Cornfield--"At the front
  South edge of the corn-field was a low Virginia
  rail fence. Before the corn were open fields,
  beyond which was a strip of woods surrounding a
  little church, the Dunkard church. As we appeared
  at the edge of the corn, a long line of men in
  butternut and gray rose up from the ground.
  Simultaneously, the hostile battle lines opened a
  tremendous fire upon each other. Men . . . were
  knocked out of the ranks by dozens. But we jumped
  over the fence, and pushed on, loading, firing,
  and shouting as we advanced. There was . . .
  great hysterical excitement, eagerness to go
  forward."