HIST 4072 Lecture : Lecture 13 Civil War End
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All a part of the anaconda plan: union also had to maintain control of kansas, missouri, and kentucky, even though missouri and. Kentucky were slave states with most people siding with confederates: confederates controlled southern missouri, hallack took over union troops with grant and others under him. Johnston had bowling green, kentuky, and columbus: ft. henry and donelson, johnston constructed ft. donelson to protect his communication route. Halleck sent grant with 15,000 troops to attack with accompanying u-boats. Was now under union control: lincoln combined all military departments into one under general halleck, shiloh, april of 1862; grant and buelle planned to meet in tennessee near shilo church. Johnston surprised grant and his men there pushing him back to tennessee river however. Johnston was killed just as union was about to surrender: confederates now under pgt bureaugard surrendered with major losses of life and casualties.
