The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

Are you a Northerner or a Southerner? 370 On February 22, 2006, Sunni Muslims overwhelmed the caretaker and staff of the Mosque ...

The War to Save the UnionThe War to Save the Union 14 CONTENTS ■The Aftermath at Bloody Laneshows the road that anchored Lee’s d ...

372 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union of the times, but would he act decisively in this cri- sis? His behavior as president-e ...

Fort Sumter: The First Shot 373 75,000 volunteers; his request prompted Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee to sec ...

374 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union do that.” He added, however, “I intend no modifica- tion of my oft-expressed personal w ...

The Blue and the Gray 375 armies were defeated by forces of equal or smaller size. There was little to distinguish the enlisted ...

376 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union Of course, the Confederacy made heavy use of the precedents and administrative machiner ...

Politics as Usual 377 The Southerners then counterattacked, driving the Union soldiers back. As often happens with green troops, ...

378 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union Congress. Most Democrats supported measures nec- essary for the conduct of the war but ...

War in the West: Shiloh 379 The South borrowed as much as it could ($712 mil- lion), even mortgaging cotton undeliverable becaus ...

380 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union New Orleans was captured by a naval force under the command of Captain David Farragut, ...

McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior 381 unprotected, it simplified the problem of keeping the army supplied in hostile country. But ...

382 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union Before that date McClellan had possessed clear numerical superiority yet had only inche ...

The Emancipation Proclamation 383 contempt for the president, Lincoln replied gently, “We must use what tools we have.” While Mc ...

384 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union not because he personally disapproved. Indeed, he frequently cited Radical pressure as ...

African American Soldiers 385 Most white Northerners did not surrender their comforting belief in black inferiority, and Lincoln ...

The 54th Massachusetts storms Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863. Composed of black volunteers but led by Robert Gould Shaw, a white a ...

Antietam to Gettysburg 387 jokingly, sideburns). Burnside was a good corps com- mander, but he lacked the self-confidence essent ...

388 Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union a leather goods store. In 1861, approaching age forty, he seemed well into a life of fr ...

Economic and Social Effects, North and South 389 Vicksburg, he abandoned his communications and supply lines and struck at Jacks ...