Notes Chapters 3 & 4

Military Deaths in the American Civil War -

                                   Union                Confederate

   Battle                     110,000                    94,000
   Diseases                 225,000                  164,000
   POWs                       30,000                    26,000  
                                 ________               ________
                                   365,000                  254,000    T = 620,000



Chapter 3:   Glorious Terrible War  

How do the soldiers feel after the battle of Manassas?  (p. 63)  (pros and cons)
How does the town reacted to the wounded?  (p. 64-69)  
We met Mary L. Payne on p. 35.  Here is one of her daughters, Millie (p. 66).        
What is the difference between Monimia Carey and her 18 year old daughter Constance?  (p. 68)  
What are the other young women doing?  Smuggling drugs from Maryland 
What types of thoughts are Daniel Grimsley having about Manassas?  (p. 70)  Nightmares.  But also thinks it will show the Yankees they need to give up the war.
Read about what Culpeper Unionists.  (p. 72 - 73)
    James B. Kirk refuses to help Confederate soldiers
   William Purks, who owns 8 slaves, is accused of being an abolitionist 
    William Souther publicly proclaims the Union will win, will only nurse Union soldiers, helps two POWs escape.
What is going on with Culpeper churches?  (p. 74 - 75)  People aren't coming.
What is "foraging" and who is doing it to whom? (p. 77)  Confederate soldiers to Culpeper citizens, milk their cows, take firewood, hit the orchards 
Whites and free blacks are forcibly assigned work
Who is Culpeper's first civilian death?  Churchill Gordon 
How many men are dying and from what?  (p. 77 - 78)
    Typhoid, diarrhea, 119 in 2 months
Rise in local crime and violence, VD in the army
Prices rising on sugar, molasses, tobacco by the end of 1861 
More on youthful romance  (p. 79 - 80).  
Note that, except for Unionists, almost all Culpeper men able to fight are already on the Army.  (p.81) Manpower will be a huge Confederate problem.
Cover the military and political events of late 1861 
   Missouri invasion and Fremont emancipating the slaves
   Fort Hatteras N.C. falls
   R.E. Lee defeated at Cheat Mountain (Sept) in his first command.
   McClellan defeated at Ball's Bluff, Va (Oct)
   Diplomats Slidell and Mason (Lincoln and Great Britain)
   
Why are the northerners a "curious race and a stubborn lot?"  (p. 83)  Because they don't recognise the impossibility of subduing the South.
       

1862 - "Summer"
  

Chapter 4:   Invasion  

Notice the word "enslaved" when Governor Letcher compares Lincoln to a tyrannical and oppressive monarch of 80 years earlier.  Who is Letcher talking about?  (p.  87 - 88)  
I will explain what the "cotton embargo" was  (bottom p. 88)
What products does Culpeper need?  (p. 89)  Salt, lamp oil, shoelaces, bar soap, knitting cotton.
What does the Virginia legislature do on February 8?  (p. 89)  Orders men to do militia service.  
I will explain the "catastrophic western defeats."  (p. 90) 
The issue of what men should fight the war... (p. 91)  
    Who should get military exemptions.  How long should a man serve?
What Confederate generals arrive in Culpeper on March 12?  (p. 94)  Joseph E. Johnston,,, Gustavus Smith, James Longstreet, Richard Ewell, and Jubal Early
What is the main problem of logistics in northern Virginia? (p. 94 - 95)  Managing the railroads...
How do people feel about "militia mobilization" / conscription?  (bottom p. 97 - 98)
What happens on March 28 and 29?  (p. 100 - 101) 
Notice the part about letter writing and literacy  (p. 103)
How are things going for the Confederacy along the eastern seaboard and in the western theater (Tennessee)?  (p.  105)    
Read about "Jefferson Davis' universal conscription act"  (conscription, both North and the South, is very divisive)  (p.  106)
What does George Williams say to Gertrude about their slaves?  (p.  111)
What does Williams say about Unionists?  (p.  112)
Who is in charge of the (Union) Army of Virginia?  (p.114)
What happens on July 12?  (p.115)           


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