Chapter+3-2.+The+North+and+South+Face+Off

Chapter 3-2: The North and South Face Off


 * Key Words/Terms:**
 * Anaconda Plan: naval blockade thought up by Ab. and his military advisers to capture Richmond, control Mississippi river and block the south.
 * Sanitary Commission: helper run by Elizabeth Blackwell, battled disease and infections that killed twice as many soldiers as bullets alone.
 * Copperheads: type of poisonous snake


 * Key People:**
 * Mary Boykin Chestnut: a diary of a southerner, provides a glimpse of her life on home front during the civil war.
 * Elizabeth Blackwell: first women to become professional licensed doctor.
 * Sally Louisa Tompkins: southern women medical aid to soldiers

Strategies of War The Military Experience
 * Key Events:**
 * Anaconda Plan was naval blockade thought up by Ab. and his military advisers to capture Richmond, control Mississippi river and block the south.
 * South planned to capture Washington and invade the North
 * North planned to divide the South
 * South tried to win support of France and Great Britain
 * France and Great Britain weren't dependable and south's plan failed
 * Plus South tried to get France's help failed also.
 * Both sides had resource shortages
 * Union chose blue and Confederacy chose gray
 * Illnesses were influenza, pneumonia, and typhoid
 * more than 65 percent of soldiers died during the war from disease, infection, and malnutrition
 * At some prison camps, more than 25 percent of prisoners dies before end of the war
 * boredom, homesickness, and loneliness were part of living conditions
 * Soldiers played cards, attended prayer meetings, sang, wrote letter

The home Front Civilian Aid on the Battlefield Opposition to the War
 * In the North women worked in factories, and as farmers
 * also as clerks in treasury departments, bankers, morticians, saloon keepers, steamboat captains during the war
 * volunteer groups
 * teachers of former slaves
 * Mary Boykin Chestnut: a diary of a southerner, provides a glimpse of her life on home front during the civil war.
 * Southern women supported war efforts
 * Elizabeth Blackwell: first women to become professional licensed doctor.
 * Sally Louisa Tompkins: southern women medical aid to soldiers
 * Sanitary Commission: helper run by Elizabeth Blackwell, battled disease and infections that killed twice as many soldiers as bullets alone.
 * Copperheads: type of poisonous snake
 * Conscription: Draft
 * First draft was passed in 1862
 * Placed in the south towards plantation owners, and farmers
 * Union draft in 1863
 * Union draft caused violence to break out in New York City