Lecture 14 – October 31, 2012 1864 – Union 5-Prong Attack

1. Lecture 14 – October 31, 2012 1864 – Union 5-Prong Attack Grant/Meade’s move for Richmond & the ANV “Overland Campaign” – May – June 1864 Battle of the Wilderness – May 5-6; Battle of Spotsylvania Cthouse. - May 8-12 Battle of Cold Harbor – June 1-3 [“The Butcher”] Siege of Petersburg – begins June 12, 1864 –ends April 1865 Battle of the Crater – July 30 Sherman’s campaign for Atlanta (Bringing the Western Theater to the East) Sherman vs Joseph E. Johnston – May - June Johnston replaced by John Bell Hood – battles through July Siege of Atlanta – July – August / Taking Atlanta – Sept. 2nd Sherman’s March to the Sea – Nov. 16 – Dec. 21 (AtlantaSavannah) Shifting Military Policy Using African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fighting Hard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea /Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley POWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy Prisons – Why Have them? Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as South. Ones? Deserters – When They Left and Why? Climax of War – 1865 – Sherman in the Carolinas, Special Field Order #15 D.C. – Congress passed 13th Amend., Creates Freedmen’s Bureau; Lincoln’s 2nd Inauguration Growing Military Desperation of Confederates – Negro Soldier Law

3. Philip Sheridan – Union Cavalry Commdr. chased Confederates back up the Valley (south) and laid waste to valley resources.

4. Georgia Campaign Grant & Lee in central Virginia 1864

5. Grant’s Overland Campaign

6. Petersburg Siege - 1864

8. Lecture 14 – October 31, 2012 1864 – Union 5-Prong Attack Grant/Meade’s move for Richmond & the ANV “Overland Campaign” – May – June 1864 Battle of the Wilderness – May 5-6; Battle of Spotsylvania Cthouse. - May 8-12 Battle of Cold Harbor – June 1-3 [“The Butcher”] Siege of Petersburg – begins June 12, 1864 –ends April 1865 Battle of the Crater – July 30 Sherman’s campaign for Atlanta (Bringing the Western Theater to the East) Sherman vs Joseph E. Johnston – May - June Johnston replaced by John Bell Hood – battles through July Siege of Atlanta – July – August / Taking Atlanta – Sept. 2nd Sherman’s March to the Sea – Nov. 16 – Dec. 21 (AtlantaSavannah) Shifting Military Policy Using African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fighting Hard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea /Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley POWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy Prisons – Why Have them? Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as South. Ones? Deserters – When They Left and Why? Climax of War – 1865 – Sherman in the Carolinas, Special Field Order #15 D.C. – Congress passed 13th Amend., Creates Freedmen’s Bureau; Lincoln’s 2nd Inauguration Growing Military Desperation of Confederates – Negro Soldier Law

9. Sherman’s Burning of Atlanta – September 1864 “All is fair in love and war?” -- what’s fair? what’s right? what’s appropriate conduct for war? Look to the Lieber Code – we will discuss on Friday.

13. Lecture 14 – October 31, 2012 1864 – Union 5-Prong Attack Grant/Meade’s move for Richmond & the ANV “Overland Campaign” – May – June 1864 Battle of the Wilderness – May 5-6; Battle of Spotsylvania Cthouse. - May 8-12 Battle of Cold Harbor – June 1-3 [“The Butcher”] Siege of Petersburg – begins June 12, 1864 –ends April 1865 Battle of the Crater – July 30 Sherman’s campaign for Atlanta (Bringing the Western Theater to the East) Sherman vs Joseph E. Johnston – May - June Johnston replaced by John Bell Hood – battles through July Siege of Atlanta – July – August / Taking Atlanta – Sept. 2nd Sherman’s March to the Sea – Nov. 16 – Dec. 21 (AtlantaSavannah) Shifting Military Policy Using African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fighting Hard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea /Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley POWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy Prisons – Why Have them? Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as South. Ones? Deserters – When They Left and Why? Climax of War – 1865 – Sherman in the Carolinas, Special Field Order #15 D.C. – Congress passed 13th Amend., Creates Freedmen’s Bureau; Lincoln’s 2nd Inauguration Growing Military Desperation of Confederates – Negro Soldier Law

16. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Robert Gould Shaw

18. Libby Prison, Richmond, VA

20. Burying the Dead At Andersonville Prison

22. Captain Henry [Hartmann Heinrich] Wirz, Superintendent Andersonville Prison

23. 1864 Sketch of a Union Prison Camp

24. Baseball at Salisbury, NC Prison Camp

26. Union Prisoner Released from Andersonville, Spring 1865

27. Lecture 14 – October 31, 2012 1864 – Union 5-Prong Attack Grant/Meade’s move for Richmond & the ANV “Overland Campaign” – May – June 1864 Battle of the Wilderness – May 5-6; Battle of Spotsylvania Cthouse. - May 8-12 Battle of Cold Harbor – June 1-3 [“The Butcher”] Siege of Petersburg – begins June 12, 1864 –ends April 1865 Battle of the Crater – July 30 Sherman’s campaign for Atlanta (Bringing the Western Theater to the East) Sherman vs Joseph E. Johnston – May - June Johnston replaced by John Bell Hood – battles through July Siege of Atlanta – July – August / Taking Atlanta – Sept. 2nd Sherman’s March to the Sea – Nov. 16 – Dec. 21 (AtlantaSavannah) Shifting Military Policy Using African Americans --Confederates Respond to EP, Lincoln Counters Davis’s order United States Colored Troops – how & where they served / challenges to fighting Hard Hand of War – Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea /Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley POWs – The Evolution of Prisoner Exchange Policy Prisons – Why Have them? Were Northern Prisons Just as Bad as South. Ones? Deserters – When They Left and Why? Climax of War – 1865 – Sherman in the Carolinas, Special Field Order #15 D.C. – Congress passed 13th Amend., Creates Freedmen’s Bureau; Lincoln’s 2nd Inauguration Growing Military Desperation of Confederates – Negro Soldier Law