April 30

Confederate Struggle for Recognition The South had three chances for victory, They needed recognition, financial aid, and foreign military involvement. The faults assumption was that England needed more American cotton than it actually did. The emancipation proclamation prevented any foreign nation from helping the Confederacy. Clara Barton Women in the war served as nurses. The legacy of Clara Barton was that she started the Red Cross. The Women’s liberation movement sped up by 50 years. American Plan Winfield Scott says to blockade the south, Defend D.C. While pressuring Richmond. Divide and invade the confederacy along the Cumberland the Tennessee, the Mississippi rivers. The confederates plan to fight to a stalemate, then rely on Northern or foreign sympathy. The Draft Confederacy first, 1862. $500 got you out of the daft. A substitute was another way, and so was a key job. Owning 20 plus slaves. It is commonly called a rich mans war. The North started theirs in 1863, $300 or a substitute got you out. Substitutes often ran away and subbed in more than one place. Riots over the draft occurred over New York and Detroit. Marrimack and the Monitor The Naval campaign was in 1861 and 1862, it involved the Atlantic and Gulf Coast. They are the first iron clad ships. William Quantrill He is a former who led pro slavery teenagers. Two of whom were Frank and Jesse James. Jay Hawkers were abolitionist who opposed Quantrils Raiders.