Military Strategy

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Military Strategy

• 10/01/02

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The Search for Allies

• The South and the North both wanted allies, the
  south had Great Britain as an unofficial ally

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Pivotal Land Battles

• Bull Run
• Antietam
• Chancellorsville

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Pivotal Land Battles

• Gettysburg
• Atlanta to Savannah
• Shenandoah Valley
• Petersburg

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Bull Run (also called Manassas

• First major land battle of the Civil War. The
  South won

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Antietam

• The first major Civil War engagement on Northern
  soil.

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Antietam

• It was also the bloodiest single day battle in
  American history.

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Antietam

• Led to Lincoln introducing the Emancipation
  Proclamation to broaden the war

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Antietam

• May have prevented England and France from
  lending support to the CSA.

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Antietam

• The battle sealed the fate of the Confederacy.

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Chancellorsville

• Death of Stonewall Jackson

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Chancellorsville

• Win for Gen. Lee

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Gettysburg

• The largest battle ever waged in the Western
  Hemisphere

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Gettysburg Images
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Gettysburg

• Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg address after
  the battle

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Gettysburg Address
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived,
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
here on a great battlefield of that war. We have
come to dedicate a portion of it as a final
resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.
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But in a larger sense we can not dedicate -- we
can not consecrate -- we can not hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled, here, have consecrated it far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember, what we say here,
but can never forget what they did here. It is
for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work which they have, thus far,
so nobly carried on.
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us -- that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they here gave the last full
measure of devotion -- that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain that this nation shall have a new birth of
freedom and that this government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
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Atlanta to Savanna
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Atlanta to Savanna

• Sherman carved a sixty-mile wide swath of
  destruction in the Confederacy's heartland

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Shenandoah Valley

• Several Battles were fought in this breadbasket
  of the Confederacy

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Petersburg

• Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant US Gen. Robert E.
  Lee CS

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Petersburg

• Led to the fall of Richmond, the Capitol of the
  Confederacy.

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Western Campaign

• Vicksburg
• Chickamauga
• Chattanooga

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Vicksburg

• The Confederacy was effectively split in half

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Chickamauga, GA

• Confederate victory

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Chattanooga

• Chattanooga, the Gateway to the Lower South,
  which became the supply and logistics base for
  Shermans 1864 Atlanta Campaign.

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War at Sea

• Naval Blockade
• Trent Affair
• Merrimac vs. Monitor

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Naval Blockade

• Unions Anaconda Plan designed to wrap around
  the Confederacy and Choke it out

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Trent Affair

• US Forces go on board a British steamer, Trent

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Trent Affair

• And seize 2 Confederate Emissaries

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Trent Affair

• Britain demanded the surrender of these
  emissaries or go to war

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Trent Affair

• The U.S. gave them to Britain

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Merrimac vs. Monitor

• Signals the end of wooden warships

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