Four Years of Fighting (Part 2)

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Four Years of Fighting (Part 2)

• I. War in the West
• 1. Goals
• a. Control the Mississippi River
• b. Control New Orleans
• c. Cut the South in half

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I. War in the West continued

• 2. Battles in the West
• a. Shiloh (Tennessee)
• -Union victory
• b. New Orleans
• -Admiral David Farragut
• -Union victory
• c. Vicksburg Mississippi
• -Union victory
• -Union Controlled Mississippi R.
• -Union cut South in half
• -U.S. Grant
• -Chattanooga
• -U.S. Grant victory

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II. The War at Sea

• 1. Goal
• a. Blockade
• -cut Confederate trade
• -Atlantic
• -Gulf of Mexico
• -decline in cotton export
• -no foreign war supplies
• b. New age of Naval warfare
• -steel warships
• -Virginia (S) vs. Monitor (N)

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III. Union Victory

• 1. Union missions accomplished
• a. Controlled Mississippi
• b. Successful blockade
• 2. Final Goal
• a. Split the south in half
• -General Sherman
• -March to the Sea
• -Tennessee to Georgia
• -Destroy everything along the way
• -General Grant
• -Wilderness Campaign
• -March to Richmond VA
• b. Confederate Surrender
• -General Lee to General Grant
• -Appomattox Courthouse

www.nps.gov/apco/surrend.htm
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Questions

• 1. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the
  Union in the Civil War?
• 2. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the
  Confederacy in the Civil
• War?
• 3. Why was the Civil War so long and so costly?
• 4. What strategies were incorporated to enable
  the Union to win the war?