PopulationManufacturing Capabilities
King Corn
Transportation Infrastructure: Railroads & highways
Not Fighting on their own SoilPolitical Stability An Existing Army
Money
Anaconda Plan
Border States
Union States
Territories
States that seceded before April 15, 1861
States that seceded after April 15, 1861
Union States that allowed Slavery
Robert E. Lee
Fighting a Defensive War
Fighting Spirit
Military Leadership
King Cotton
600,000 diedToday that would total
6 Million Americans
July 1861
Confederates Won.
Union Soldiers Retreated.
Many in the South thought
the war was won.
Jackson becomes known as Stonewall Jackson.
UNION CONFEDERATE
General U. S. GrantGeneral Sherman
General Buell(reinforcements)
Albert JohnstonGeneral Beauregard
*Major Battle in the Western Theater*23,000 Casualties
*Complete Butchery*Reassessment of the length and damages
war would cause.*Worst Fighting occurred in “the Hornets’
Nest”.
* South almost wins* More casualties than any
other American war combined.
*Johnston dies!
Hornets’ Nest
Rifled Musket.Trench Warfare.
Calvary.Used Forerunners of the
Machine gun.1st Land Mines.
1st Military Telegraphs.Railroad Artillery.
* Captured in Late April 1862
* Important Strategic Victory for Union.
* The Union Successfully Bombed the permanent Forts to gain control.
Federal Fleet at New Orleans, 1862