- The blockade was an offensive move used by the union.
- The confederate army had many blockade runners, along with the first ironclad warship
- There were four border states that didn’t know whether or not to side with the Union or the confederates.
- Two of Lincolns moves that helped the Union win was to draft soldiers and also on those within union borders but were against the Union, jail them without enforcing habeas corpus
- 1861- 1865
- They were fighting a defensive war, had better leaders at least at first, and they had more will to fight
- The United States president was Abraham Lincoln and the Confederates was Jefferson Davis
- She gathered medical supplies and supplied them to the Union along with medical help at the front line
- To prevent them from getting supplies
- It was the Unions first big win that gave them confidence for future battles
- That any enslaved person in a state of rebellion was now free
- On the North side they fought both in the Navy and in the Army and for the South they worked the land so the white men could fight and this supplied the South
- It destroyed it, since most the war was fought in the South, a lot of stuff was destroyed and the south laid in ruins. Farmland was destroyed, and railroad were torn up. There was an inflamtion of 9000 percent.
- Lee and his men could go home even with their horse so long as they left their arms
- They disagreed with it so they formed West Virginia and seceded from Virginia and joined the Union
- To the North, it divided the Confederate and prevented them from shipping or receive supplies. The South used to the transport supplies
- It was really a fight for their freedom so they had passion for the war and there were so many of them that if you used them you had more people and a better chance at winning
- We was a very strategic man and planned attacks well, he was also good to his men and they respected him and he got things done
Event | Year | Significance |
Attack on Fort Sumter | 1861 | Confederates first attack, start of the civil war |
Monitor V. Merrimack | 1862 | It marked a new age in naval warfare (first battle between two metal- covered ships |
Emancipation Proclamation issued | 1863 | Showed that we were also fighting for slave freedom |
Lincoln is reelected | 1864 | It meant the Union would keep pushing to get the Confederates to rejoin the union and not just make peace with the south |
Appomattox Court House | 1865 | Where Lee surrendered at, ending the War |
- Cemetery Ridge
- Ewell
- Ewell, Lee, Hill, Longstreet, and Pickett
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