Civil War 5
As the men and women were joining the armies, the leaders of the both Confederate and Union began to talk about strategies on how they were going to win the war. The strategies for both sides contrasted each other due to the different war aims. The Confederate's strategy, which had to defend itself from the North invasion until the Northerners felt that the war costed to much money and many lives. The Union's strategies, was thought up by the general-in-chief of the US army, Winfield Scott. Scott's plan was to put pressure on the South, by putting a blockage so that they could not receive any manufacture goods from the European. They also attacked them from all sides, and splitted the South into western and eastern states from the Mississppi River. This plan by Scott was called the Anaconda Plan. On July 16, 1861, 30,000 Union troops led by General Irvin McDowell began to march to the Confederate capital, Richmod, Virginia. The place was only 100 miles from Washington DC. As the Union troops march nearly ¾ of the way to Richmond, they stopped and camped at Manassas. There the Union troops met the Confederate Army. They were led by General Beauregard. Then only July 21, the Battle of Bull Run or th
The day after Manassas, Lincoln was so upset that he signed a bill for the enlistment of 500,000 volunteer soldiers to serve in the Union army for the next three years. Three days later, Lincoln signed bill for another 500,000 volunteers. Lincoln also change the military leaders for the Union by firing General Winfield Scott as the chief general, and replaced him with General George McClellan to lead and whip the Union army into shape for a new offense. McClellan proved to be great at this task, as he trained an army of 150,000 soldiers within 5 month. This was known to be the Army of the Potomac. However, due to McClellan caution, he kept on arguing that his troops were not ready and it was out numbered by the Confederates (which was false). McClellan said he would only attack the Confederates when his army reached 270,000 soldiers. McClellan would not attack the Confederates until the Spring of 1862. From the beginning to the mid-1861 most of the battle and some of the bloodiest sites took place along the Eastern Coast of the US, but some of the "most outset of the Civil War and took place in Missouri" thoughout the last half of the 1861. On June of 1861, Captain Nathaniel Lyon, led a force about 6,000 troops down into Southern Missouri. Captain Lyon plans was to "secure" the area of this section, then he wo
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