HSTR 210A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Southern Water, Emancipation Proclamation, John Wilkes Booth
15 Dec 2016
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Hstr 210 dr. lieb lecture 11: the civil war 1861-1865 pt. 2. No, 75,000 soldiers total for terms of three months. Confederate forces were not in form to chase: maryland and delaware are slave states that are crucial for the union, washington d. c. is in a precarious military position. Wake up call: both sides expected an unrealistic war. Longer term strategy needed to be implemented. Union: circling the enemy lines and crushing them to death, anaconda: maintain the pressure on virginia. Northern virginia would become one of the main battle grounds: naval blockade of all southern water ports. South could not export it"s cotton, produced for export only, if south was able to export it can use that revenue to buy equipment. Might align the british with the south: campaign down the mississippi river to cut the confederacy in half. Using naval forces moving down then back up the river.
