Chapter 17: Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
While Lee was driving McClellan away and winning, in the West, Union forces were still failing, All of their land triumphs disappeared. Halleck divided the Army of the Tennessee under Grant for different duties, but despite what he did, other campaigns in the West still failed. Guerrillas cut supply lines and since forces were behind Confederate lines, many of them starved and died. Then, Nathan Bedford Forrest captured a Union garrison, wrecked a railroad, and escaped. The Confederacy was thoroughly being beaten.
Buell's campaign (major Union effort in the West) showed the strengths and weaknesses of railroads. The iron horse could transport more men and goods than the normal kind. The Union forces relied more on railroads than did their Confederate counterparts. Unlike Napoleon, who stole supplies when their transportation failed, Buell was unwilling to do so, and failed. At Lexington, Kirby Smith's army prepared to inaugurate a Confederate governor at Frankfort, Kentucky.
Kentuckian women came forward to treat many of the men, but few Confederates wanted to fight.
At Corinth, Grant tried to destroy the Confederate Army, but failed. Kirby Smith and Bragg moved north from Knoxville and Chattanooga, and Jackson and Lee moved north from Richmond. Although the western battles covered more land, the eastern campaigns led to more deaths.
Antietam, called Sharpsburg by the South, was one of the few battles in which commanders of both sides chose the field on purpose and pre-planned their tactics. The Confederates used cover instead of trenches. McClellan used many troops and crated diversions. Still, it was not very well executed.
Still, Antietam could be considered a Union success. One-third of the rebels died. When Lincoln recognized it as a Union victory, Confederates gave up hope for British recognition. Antietam, would soon lead to the Emancipation Proclamation, showing that Antietam was a big turning point in the war.
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Questions:
While Lee was driving McClellan away and winning, in the West, Union forces were still failing, All of their land triumphs disappeared. Halleck divided the Army of the Tennessee under Grant for different duties, but despite what he did, other campaigns in the West still failed. Guerrillas cut supply lines and since forces were behind Confederate lines, many of them starved and died. Then, Nathan Bedford Forrest captured a Union garrison, wrecked a railroad, and escaped. The Confederacy was thoroughly being beaten.
Buell's campaign (major Union effort in the West) showed the strengths and weaknesses of railroads. The iron horse could transport more men and goods than the normal kind. The Union forces relied more on railroads than did their Confederate counterparts. Unlike Napoleon, who stole supplies when their transportation failed, Buell was unwilling to do so, and failed. At Lexington, Kirby Smith's army prepared to inaugurate a Confederate governor at Frankfort, Kentucky.
Kentuckian women came forward to treat many of the men, but few Confederates wanted to fight.
At Corinth, Grant tried to destroy the Confederate Army, but failed. Kirby Smith and Bragg moved north from Knoxville and Chattanooga, and Jackson and Lee moved north from Richmond. Although the western battles covered more land, the eastern campaigns led to more deaths.
Still, Antietam could be considered a Union success. One-third of the rebels died. When Lincoln recognized it as a Union victory, Confederates gave up hope for British recognition. Antietam, would soon lead to the Emancipation Proclamation, showing that Antietam was a big turning point in the war.
Key Terms:
- Battle at Corinth: Grant went through Corinth after Battle of Shiloh, where there was a major railroad junction; he wanted to capture Memphis.
- Battle of Antietam: Bloodiest single day in American History (1862); McClellan vs Lee; Union achieved potential breakthroughs at Confed. line. McClellan feared counterattacks and held back; McClellan was replaced, the battle was considered a tie, but the Union claimed it as their victory. It would lead to the Emancipation Proclamation.
- Braxton Bragg: Confederate; hoped to regain TN and then move forward to KY; fought against Union army at Chattanooga, but was forced to withdraw back South.
- Kirby Smith: Confederate general; along with Braxton Bragg swept through eastern Tennessee in August; by September they were operating in Kentucky; inaugurated governor at Frankfort, Tennessee.
- Don Carlos Buell: Union General; at Battle of Shiloh
- Henry Halleck: general-in-chief; gave orders to Grant in northern MS to take property for public use from rebel sympathizers inside Union lines.
- Emancipation Proclamation: After Union victory at Antietam, Lincoln announces on the Jan. 1, 1863 that all slaves in the rebelling states would be free. He did this to hurt the Confederacy, and take away its property.
Questions:
- All the book talks about treating soldiers is in one sentence... When did nurses start working on the battlefield and form foundations to help soldiers?
- What prompted the Emancipation Proclamation?
- I mean, I understand that it happened after Antietam, but just because there was so many casualites then, what does that have to do with freeing the slaves?
- McPherson, James M. "17: Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." In Battle Cry of Freedom, 511-545. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
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