lecture 13 – october 29, 2012 union strategy in 1863 & 64: troop movements: first, what...
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Lecture 13 – October 29, 2012 Union Strategy in 1863 & 64:Troop Movements:First, What Happened in 1863? East: Protecting DC/ Pursuing Lee’s ArmyWest: Dividing, then Subdividing the Confederacy
Vicksburg Campaign [after many attempts and a siege, Union victory 7/4/63] Chattanooga – Chickamauga campaign – [August – September 1863]
Major Military Initiatives in 1864 - Union’s plans for the winter & spring of 1864Grant: Assaults on all Fronts! Simultaneous Advance on 5 Fronts:
LA Mobile, AL [Banks]Chattanooga Atlanta [Sherman]Army of Potomac ANV [Grant/Meade]James River Richmond [Butler]West VA Shenandoah Valley [Sigel] – later Sheridan!
Shifting Military PolicyUsing African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fightingHard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea
Sheridan in the Shenandoah ValleyPOWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy
Prisons – Why Have them? Breakdown of Prisoner Exchange Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as Southern Ones?
Then Talk about Prisons & Desertion
1863
Lee -vs- Meade
View of Seminary Ridge from Union position on Cemetery Hill
View of Cemetery Ridge from Confederate position on Seminary Ridge
Lecture 13 – October 29, 2012 Union Strategy in 1863 & 64:Troop Movements:First, What Happened in 1863? East: Protecting DC/ Pursuing Lee’s ArmyWest: Dividing, then Subdividing the Confederacy
Vicksburg Campaign [after many attempts and a siege, Union victory 7/4/63] Chattanooga – Chickamauga campaign – [August – September 1863]
Major Military Initiatives in 1864 - Union’s plans for the winter & spring of 1864Grant: Assaults on all Fronts! Simultaneous Advance on 5 Fronts:
LA Mobile, AL [Banks]Chattanooga Atlanta [Sherman]Army of Potomac ANV [Grant/Meade]James River Richmond [Butler]West VA Shenandoah Valley [Sigel] – later Sheridan!
Shifting Military PolicyUsing African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fightingHard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea
Sheridan in the Shenandoah ValleyPOWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy
Prisons – Why Have them? Breakdown of Prisoner Exchange Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as Southern Ones?
Then Talk about Prisons & Desertion
Grant’s 1863 Strategy for Vicksburg
Siege of Vicksburg – Living in Caves
Lecture 13 – October 29, 2012 Union Strategy in 1863 & 64:Troop Movements:First, What Happened in 1863? East: Protecting DC/ Pursuing Lee’s ArmyWest: Dividing, then Subdividing the Confederacy
Vicksburg Campaign [after many attempts and a siege, Union victory 7/4/63] Chattanooga – Chickamauga campaign – [August – September 1863]
Major Military Initiatives in 1864 - Union’s plans for the winter & spring of 1864Grant: Assaults on all Fronts! Simultaneous Advance on 5 Fronts:
LA Mobile, AL [Banks]Chattanooga Atlanta [Sherman]Army of Potomac ANV [Grant/Meade]James River Richmond [Butler]West VA Shenandoah Valley [Sigel] – later Sheridan!
Shifting Military PolicyUsing African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fightingHard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea
Sheridan in the Shenandoah ValleyPOWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy
Prisons – Why Have them? Breakdown of Prisoner Exchange Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as Southern Ones?
Then Talk about Prisons & Desertion
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Robert Gould Shaw
Libby Prison, Richmond, VA
Burying the Dead At Andersonville Prison
Captain Henry [Hartmann Heinrich] Wirz, Superintendent Andersonville Prison
1864 Sketch of a Union Prison Camp
Baseball at Salisbury, NC Prison Camp
Union Prisoner Releasedfrom Andersonville,Spring 1865
Philip Sheridan – Union Cavalry Commdr.chased Confederates backup the Valley (south) and laid waste to valley resources.
Georgia Campaign
Grant & Lee in central Virginia