Warm Up

Take Out Resource Packet

Read Pages 15 & 16

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty

land will never be purged away but with

blood.

~ John Brown at his execution

Lincoln Takes Office

• Message mix of toughness and reconciliation

““We are not enemies, but We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection”break our bonds of affection”

After Ft Sumter

• Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to save the Union

• VA, NC, TN and AR vote to join Confederacy

The Border States

• MD, DE, KY, MO

• Held vital positions

• Lincoln had to keep on side of Union

• What might Lincoln have done?

1861

Military Strategy and Leadership

Leaders - Union

• Abraham Lincoln• Sec. Of War Edwin Stanton

• Sec of State – Wlm Seward

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

Leaders - Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis

                  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"

Pre-Civil War

• US Army – 16,000 Soldiers and Officers

• Navy – 42 Warships

Officers Pick Sides

• US Military split

• Army – Mostly comprised of and led by Southerners

• Navy – Mostly Northerners, but few armed ships

Strategy

• What does the North have to do to win?• Conquer and Destroy South’s 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

At the Top - North

• Winfield Scott General-In-Chief

• April 19 1861 – Winfield Scott urges Lincoln to commission Robert E Lee

The Anaconda Plan

• Winfield Scott

• As little bloodshed as possible

• Union Blockade

• Divide and Conquer

The Anaconda Plan

• Blockade

• Union had 3 ships that could blockade

• Steam power

• “Old Father Neptune”

Homework

• Complete Map Activity # 2