The Real Soulja Boi

Whitney Patterson, Chane Jacobs, and Phillip Price

July 2008

Standards Addressed

8-3.4: Reasons for secession for SC as well as attitudes of others involved such as unionists and abolitionists

8-3.5: Military Strategies and important battles

The Causes of the Civil War 1. Tariff (tax): question of

future economic power States’ Rights: political

argument grounded on the legacy of the Jeffersonian Era (good ole boys)

“Equality” within the Union Overall Economy 1830’s dawn of Abolition ALL TRACE BACK TO THE

FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT OF SLAVERY

The Umbrella Effect

Confederate Secession

The secession documents explicitly point out secession was because of the South’s peculiar institution.

http://people.clemson.edu/~pcander/secession.html

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Confederate Advantages Playing offensive: Confederates have to NOT LOSE Republican Ideology (Way of thinking, consumed

every aspect of thought) Liberty: Precious, fragile and weak Power: Selfish, grasping, always working to overcome

Liberty Vigilance: On guard Virtue: Internal defense of Liberty Corruption: Selfish, Power through Conspiracy Conspiracy: Proof Power moves secretly

Better knowledge of terrain (property) Better leadership

Union Advantages

Population: 2,200,000 to 1,064,000 Railroads Industry: could mass produce arms,

ammunition, cannons, etc.

Maps States that seceded before

April 15th, 1861 States that seceded after April

15th, 1861 Union States that permitted

slavery Union States that forbade

slavery Territories, unaffiliated

Fort Sumter

April 12th, 1861 at 4:30 am

Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard fired the shots on Major Anderson

Fort Sumter

In her Charleston hotel room, diarist Mary Chesnet heard the opening shot. "I sprang out of bed." she wrote. "And on my knees--prostrate--I prayed as I never prayed before." The shelling of Fort Sumter from the batteries ringing the harbor awakened Charleston's residents, who rushed out into the predawn darkness to watch the shells arc over the water and burst inside the fort. Mary Chesnut went to the roof of her hotel, where the men were cheering the batteries and the women were praying and crying. Her husband, Col. James Chesnut, had delivered Beauregard's message to the fort. "I knew my husband was rowing around in a boat somewhere in that dark bay," she wrote, "and who could tell what each volley accomplished of death and destruction?“http://www.us-civilwar.com/sumter.htm

Manassas 1861 Picnic mentality Directly

affected the way of life of all involved, including Carolinians

Thomas Jackson dubbed his name Stonewall “Oh men, there are Jackson

and his Virginians, standing behind you like a stone wall! Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Follow me.” ~General Barnard Bee

Birth of Rebel Yell Confederate victory

Battle at Fredricksburg

A win for the South Fought in Fredricksburg, VA From Dec. 11-15, 1862 one of the most one-sided battles of the Civil

War Brought an early end to a campaign against the

Confederate capital of Richmond. The Union Army came with about 20,000 soldiers

and there were about 12,000 casualties

December 13th Battle 1 pm

3:30 pm

Key:ConfederateUnion

Chancellorsville

A Confederate Victory Known as Lee’s

“perfect battle” because

of his risky but successful

Division of his army Jackson was shot

May 1st and 2nd

May 3rd May 4th

Gettysburg

Gettysburg Turning point of the war Picketts Charge Commanders George G. Meade vs. Robert E. Lee Strength

93,921: North 71,699: South

Casualties 23,055: North (3,155 killed,

14,531 wounded,5,369 captured/missing)

23,231: South(4,708 killed,12,693 wounded,5,830 captured/missing)

Union Win at Gettysburg

Significance: The turning point of the war. After success at

Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Lee invades the north again. After trying to break the union lines for 2 days, Lee tries a frontal assault on entrenched union forces. This was known as Pickett’s charge. This attempt failed miserably. Lee ultimately retreats to Virginia. This would be the last chance for the South to win the war and threaten the North.

Sherman’s march on Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia (Sherman’s march to the sea) Union Commander: General William Sherman Confederate Commander: General John Hood July 20-September 2, 1864 Casualties: Union-31,623 Confederate-35,044 Winner: Union

Implications of Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia (Sherman’s march to the sea) Union Commander: General William Sherman Confederate Commander: General John Hood July 20-September 2, 1864 Casualties: Union-31,623 Confederate-35,044 Winner: Union

On to the Coast

Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." On December 26, the president replied in a letter:

For South Carolinians………

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Some even went as far in South Carolina to brand this man the Devil Incarnate, the Antichrist if you will. They even regard his Campaign of the Carolinas and his March

to the Sea as a sort of Satanic crusades.

Thoughts on Sherman

"I dont see any horns. You are supposed to have horns" A child's answer to Sherman's question of why he repeatedly was staring at his head.

No love lost for SC

"Im Going to march to Richmond.....and when I go through South Carolina it will be one of the most horrible things in the history of the world. The devil himself couldn’t restrain my men in that state. " William Tecumseh Sherman prior to his infamous Campaign of the Carolinas

South Carolina (reasons he hated us)

1. We were the “Cradle of Secession”

2. We were the first to Secede

3. He thought we were a small, but cocky state that had brought forth the 4 years of hardship on the nation called the American Civil War. South Carolina would have to pay and as General W.T. Sherman hoped the 1861 occupation of Fort Sumter by Major Anderson would do, "show South Carolina for the first time in her existence she cannot do as she pleases".

1865 Scourging the Carolinas

Sherman devastates the Carolinas on his way back to meet up with Grant in Virginia

Beauregard split his troops. Confederates are no match, evacuate

Feb17,1865 He burns 1/3 of the city Columbia Moves on to North Carolina

Appomattox Courthouse

Surrender of Lee

Lee’s Surrender

On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered his army of Northern Virginia in a little village called Appomattox Courthouse. Lee surrendered formally to Ulysses S. Grant. The papers of formal surrender were signed in the home of Wilmer Mclean, whose first house was damaged during the first battle of the Civil War.

Back to Sherman in NC

Two weeks after Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox, Johnston surrenders at Durham Station, April 26 1865, to Sherman’s March.

In May, Union cavalry conducted a raid through Spartanburg and Greenville in search of Jefferson Davis.

The last cabinet meeting of the Confederate States was held in Abbeville on May 2.

The Civil War was at an end.

Fun Quotes

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over"- Union General William T. Sherman said this shortly before beginning his brutal March to the Sea

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet! -Jackson

"I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States." –Jeb Stuart

Fix Bayonets Ya’ll We are going to do an activity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa2hv8U8cWU

Resources

http://members.aol.com/x69xer/index.html www.walnutcreeksd.org/

1064206142233747/lib/1064206142233747/Civil_War_Battles_ppt.PPT

Wikipedia.org South Carolina, A History. Walter Edgar