Sim Civil War
Beginning December 1860: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Tennessee seceded.
Union: Ohio, Oregon, California, Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Maryland, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Vermont, West Virginia, Iowa, Illinois
Population: 1/5 of Confederate population was slaves, who could not take up arms.
Industry
South: Most were small, craft-type factories
North: More factories
Food
South: Much of South’s agriculture was cotton
North: More food (Midwestern states)
Wealth
South: Wealth from Southern cotton went through Northern states, so that money was actually in the North
North: Large banks in NY and MA
Transportation
South: Spotty, non-standard railroad tracks, mostly N-S
North: Standard railroads that ran both N-S and E-W
Merchant Shipping
South: A few ports
North: Most shipping went through Northern ports (Philadelphia,New York, Boston); ship-building
Navy
South: Few ships
North: Lots of Naval and merchant ships, helpful in Anaconda Plan (blockade southern ports)
Advantages
South: Defending home and hearth (interior lines), better generals, cotton (at first; then confiscated by North), better cavalry
North: Immigration
South was cut in half by Grant at Vicksburg. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas cut off.
Robert E. Lee’s army and other Southern armies dwindled.
Grant called East to re-start the invasion of Virginia.
80,000 men, under the command of General Sherman, marched through Georgia like a bulldozer, blazing a trail.
General Sheridan and cavalry attacked Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
Grant and Sherman closed in on Lee and his army. Lee’s army was hurting for food, barefoot and hungry.
In Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, Lee asked for surrender.
Lincoln and Grant feared that Southern soldiers will go into the hills and fight a guerilla war.
Lincoln assassinated by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
- Virginia lost about 1/3 of its state as West Virginia decided to stay in the Union.
Union: Ohio, Oregon, California, Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Maryland, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Vermont, West Virginia, Iowa, Illinois
Population: 1/5 of Confederate population was slaves, who could not take up arms.
Industry
South: Most were small, craft-type factories
North: More factories
Food
South: Much of South’s agriculture was cotton
North: More food (Midwestern states)
Wealth
South: Wealth from Southern cotton went through Northern states, so that money was actually in the North
North: Large banks in NY and MA
Transportation
South: Spotty, non-standard railroad tracks, mostly N-S
North: Standard railroads that ran both N-S and E-W
Merchant Shipping
South: A few ports
North: Most shipping went through Northern ports (Philadelphia,New York, Boston); ship-building
Navy
South: Few ships
North: Lots of Naval and merchant ships, helpful in Anaconda Plan (blockade southern ports)
Advantages
South: Defending home and hearth (interior lines), better generals, cotton (at first; then confiscated by North), better cavalry
North: Immigration
South was cut in half by Grant at Vicksburg. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas cut off.
Robert E. Lee’s army and other Southern armies dwindled.
Grant called East to re-start the invasion of Virginia.
80,000 men, under the command of General Sherman, marched through Georgia like a bulldozer, blazing a trail.
General Sheridan and cavalry attacked Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
Grant and Sherman closed in on Lee and his army. Lee’s army was hurting for food, barefoot and hungry.
In Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, Lee asked for surrender.
Lincoln and Grant feared that Southern soldiers will go into the hills and fight a guerilla war.
Lincoln assassinated by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.