Why the Union won the Civil War
- Created by: Bobwilliams
- Created on: 02-06-15 16:15
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- Why the Union won the Civil War
- Lost cause theorey
- Population
- Union 21 Million People
- South 9 Million
- 3.5 Million Slaves
- 1863 North outnumbered Southern army by over 2:1
- Casualties North 642,4427 South 483,026
- Agriculture
- Corn production
- Union 400 Million bushel
- South 250 Million bushel
- Livestock
- Union 40 Million
- South 35 Million
- Corn production
- Industry
- Factories
- North 101,000
- South 21,000
- Railroad
- North 22,000 miles
- South 9,500 miles
- Factories
- Believed by historian Robert Krick, Brian Pohanka
- Population
- Lack of British intervention
- British intrests in South
- Sympathy
- Cotton 75% of Britsh textile industry relied on Southern cotton
- 1862-1863 cotton famine Lancashire
- Why South needed Britain
- Population difference
- Industrial capacity
- Naval blockade
- Northern diplomacy
- Adams (US minister in london)Consistantly done everything he could to conserve peace
- Seward (secretary of state)Skillful states manship
- Emancipation proclomation
- Outr ruled chance of intervention
- British intrests in South
- Southern disunity
- Didn't work together to create a national army
- Governer Joseph Brown of Georgia - Allowed 10,000 Men to avoid the draft of conscription by making them second lieutenants in the militia
- Reluctant to release materials
- North Carolina governer Zebulon Vance- Had 100,000 uniforms stored but wouldnt release them to Lee who was in need of them
- Few states paid the economic cost needed to finance the army
- Didn't work together to create a national army
- Military Leadership
- Good Union Generals
- Grant (Butcher Grant)
- Battles Won
- Vicksburg campaign
- Shiloh
- Appomattox Courthouse
- Grants overland campaign
- Consistant
- Battles Won
- Sherman
- Good tactics (flanking)
- Moved up army ranks
- Received thanks from congress x2 for Atlanta and Chattanooga
- Sheridan
- Implemented total war
- 1864 Shenandoah campaign
- Same mind set as Grant
- Appomattox campaign
- Grant (Butcher Grant)
- Bad Union Generals
- Pope
- To aggresive
- Second Manassas
- ******
- out played
- Chancelorville
- Pope
- Good Confederate Generals
- Lee
- Bleeding the South Dry
- Seven days
- Chancellorville
- Jackson
- First /secondmanassas
- Stonewall
- Lee
- Bad confederate Generals
- Hood
- Defense of Atlanta
- Aggressive
- Pemberton
- Lost several battles during Grants Vicksburg campagn
- Couldnt use large forces
- Hood
- Gary Gallagher believes this
- Good Union Generals
- Political leadership
- Lincoln
- Inflation rose 80%
- Patient
- Consistant
- Accepted criticism
- Could appoint good generals
- Davis
- More military experienc(Mexican War)
- Couldnt control governement - Stevens
- Couldnt delegate work
- Couldnt manage economy inflation rose 9000%
- Due to printing to much money
- Not supported
- Didn't listen
- David Potter Believed this
- Lincoln
- Missed Southern oppotunities
- First Manassas
- The Trent Affair
- 1864 Election
- Lincoln realected
- Lost cause theorey
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