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Title: Warm Up


1
Warm Up
  • Take Out Resource Packet
  • Read Pages 15 16

2
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty
land will never be purged away but with blood.
  • John Brown at his execution

3
Lincoln Takes Office
  • We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be
    enemies. Though passion may have strained, it
    must not break our bonds of affection
  • Message mix of toughness and reconciliation

4
After Ft Sumter
  • Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to save the Union
  • VA, NC, TN and AR vote to join Confederacy

5
The Border States
  • MD, DE, KY, MO
  • Held vital positions
  • Lincoln had to keep on side of Union
  • What might Lincoln have done?

6
1861
  • Military Strategy and Leadership

7
Leaders - Union
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Sec. Of War Edwin Stanton
  • Sec of State Wlm Seward

8
Lincoln
  • 1861 Becomes president
  • Rejects Confederate Peace Proposals
  • Confederate secession is legally void
  • Constitution is a more perfect union
  • Orders organization of Army
  • Calls for 75000 3 month recruits

9
Leaders - Confederacy
  • Jefferson Davis

10
                   1st National Flag"Stars and Bars"                    2nd National Flag"Stainless Banner"                    3rd National Flag
                   CSA Naval Jack1861-1863                    CSA Naval Jack1863-1865                    Battle Flag"Southern Cross"

11
Pre-Civil War
  • US Army 16,000 Soldiers and Officers
  • Navy 42 Warships

12
Officers Pick Sides
  • US Military split
  • Army Mostly comprised of and led by Southerners
  • Navy Mostly Northerners, but few armed ships

13
Strategy
  • What does the North have to do to win?
  • Conquer and Destroy Souths ability to fight
  • Destroy Southern Institutions
  • What does the South have to do to win?
  • Win a Defensive War
  • Make it too costly for North to want to continue
  • Gain foreign support / win battles

14
At the Top - North
  • Winfield Scott General-In-Chief
  • April 19 1861 Winfield Scott urges Lincoln to
    commission Robert E Lee

15
The Anaconda Plan
  • Winfield Scott
  • As little bloodshed as possible
  • Union Blockade
  • Divide and Conquer

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The Anaconda Plan
  • Blockade
  • Union had 3 ships that could blockade
  • Steam power
  • Old Father Neptune

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Homework
  • Complete Map Activity 2
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