HIS 1053 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emancipation Proclamation, Uss Monitor, Little Mac (Punch-Out!!)
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Lincoln then assigns little mac george mcclellan. Rivers connect the states vs. the states are on their own. North saw it as a rebellion, mcclellan puts in the professionals, he took an untrained army into a successful professional one. Once there mcclellan cant commit himself to actually start fighting. He could send 1,000s of men to war because he knew that he had to keep attacking. Grant was the perfect general lincoln needed. South was sinking merchant vessels trying to make the north give up. Battle of hampton roads - uss monitor and the css virginia, could sink a northern vessel. Didn"t have to have several cannons now you could have just one that shot a lot. Robert e. lee- his job was to maintain a force in being needed to be a gambler. War traveled up and down close to virginia. Slaves start to attach themselves to the war.
