• Important rail junction 20 mi. S. of Richmond – Thru which 3 of the 5 railroads that fed Richmond passed
• Defended by P.G.T. Beauregard • Under siege from the Army of the Potomac
– Commanded by George G. Meade
The Crater
The Crater
• 48th Pennsylvania
• Black division trained to exploit the
July 30, 1864
– Made up of many coal miners – Commanded by Col. Henry Pleasants • Former mining engineer – Conceived the idea of a mine under the defenses of Petersburg and loaded w/ gunpowder • Standard practice of siege warfare
• Ambrose E. Burnside – Approved the idea of the Crater
resulting hole in the CSA lines.
– Under the command of Gen. Edward Ferrero
• Meade objected. – Feared political consequences if the plan failed – May have lacked faith in black troops
• Burnside protested. – Grant eventually sided w/ Meade.
• New division chosen by drawing lots. – James H. Ledlie’s division “won” the drawing.
The Crater • Explosion created huge crater. – Measured 170’ long, 60 or 70’ wide, and 30’ deep – Destroyed entire artillery battery and buried entire infantry regiment
• Union forces charged directly into the crater.
– Rather than moving around the crater as the original troops had been trained
• CSA forces recovered quickly.
– Lining the crater and shooting down at the trapped Union forces
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Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Valley
• Raided by the CSA in hopes of
• Early and the CSA were running wild
May-Oct. 1864
relieving pressure on Richmond
– Repeated the strategy Lee used during Peninsula Campaign
• Provided the threat … – Of a renewed invasion of the N. – On the security of Washington – On Baltimore • Site of the Republican Nat’l Convention
• Commanded by Jubal Early
Mobile Bay Aug. 5, 1864
• Last remaining CSA port on the Gulf of Mexico
– Had been the chief cottonshipping port before the war – Became even more important after the fall of New Orleans
and “raising hell.”
– Even reached the outskirts of Washington
• Philip H. Sheridan
– Sent in command of an army to relieve the pressure on Washington
– Sought to destroy the Shenandoah Valley • To deny Early the possibility of rapid movement and resupply from the land
• Wrote to Grant that “a crow would need to carry rations to cross the Shenandoah Valley”
• Became known as “The Burning” • May have helped shorten the war, but embittered the peace!
Mobile Bay • Mined w/ “torpedoes.” – Consisted of tethered kegs filled w/ black powdered and primed to detonate upon contact
• 25-mi. long shallow bay – Protected by sandbars w/ only one deepwater entrance • Guarded by Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines
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Mobile Bay • Protected by the C.S.S. Tennessee
– CSA ironclad ram
Mobile Bay • David G. Farragut – Commanded Union forces at Mobile Bay – From his flagship U.S.S. Hartford
Mobile Bay • U.S.S. Tecumseh – Union monitor – Sank after hitting a torpedo • Led other Union ships to slow and/or reverse course, fouling the whole Union column
• Prompted Farragut’s famous remark, “Damn the torpedoes—full speed ahead!”
Mobile Bay
James D. Bulloch
• Smoke from the battle
• Sent by the CSA sec. of the navy to
– He climbed into the rigging to get a better view. • At the age of 63! – He was lashed to the rigging.
– To be used not against the Union navy but against privately-owned ships
obscured his view of the action in Mobile Bay.
England to purchase 6 commerce raiders
• Had to find away around the Foreign Enlistment Act – Prohibited the arming of ships to be used by foreign combatants – Did not forbid the building of unarmed ships to be armed elsewhere!
• Was the uncle of Teddy Roosevelt
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C.S.S. Alabama • Commerce raider built in
Britain and armed in the Azores • Commanded by Raphael Semmes
• Captured or destroyed 69 vessels – Worth an est. $20 million – Occupied a significant portion of the Union navy tracking it down
• Ultimately sank off the coast of Cherbourg in France
– W/ an est. crowd of 15,000 watching
C.S.S. Shenandoah • Only other raider to do significant damage – Most of the damage was down after the war had ended!
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Alabama Claims • Complaint that the British
Fall of Atlanta Sept. 1, 1864
• Unable to lure the CSA
had allowed the sailing of the raiders knowing they were being built for the CSA
• Washington Treaty (1871) – Negotiated w/ the British to settle the Alabama claims – Agreed to submit claims to an arbitrator
• Subsequently awarded the U.S. $15.5 million in 1872
•
forces out in the open to be destroy, Sherman focused on the capture of Atlanta. Sherman decided to repeat the strategy employed by Grant to take Vicksburg. – Move the army S. of the city – Severe the railroads into the city • Montgomery and Atlanta RR • Macon RR
Fall of Atlanta • John Bell Hood – Commanding the defenses of Atlanta – W/drew from Atlanta once the railroads were cut
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