Civil War Outline Election of Lincoln 1860

5. 
   Strategies
   

1. 
   Blockade Confederate Coastline
   
2. 
   Split Confederacy by taking control of the Mississippi
   
3. 
   Take Confederate Capitol-Richmond, VA
   

Defensive War

6. 
   Early Battles
   

1. 
   First Bull Run/Manassas-1861, VA
   
   1. 
      “The Great Skedaddle”
      
   2. 
      Stonewall Jackson gets his nickname
      
   3. 
      Union-McDowell replaced by McClellan
      
   4. 
      Southern Victory
      
2. 
   Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing-April, 1862, Tenn
   
   1. 
      Union Victory along TN-MS Border
      
   2. 
      Enables Union to capture Corinth, MS-rail junction
      
3. 
   Ironclads-March 1862
   
   1. 
      USS Monitor (N) v CSS Virginia (Merrimac )(S)
      
      1. 
         Hampton Roads, VA
         
      2. 
         Merrimac sank numerous Union ships
         
      3. 
         Actually considered a draw
         
      4. 
         New Era in Naval Warfare
         
4. 
   Peninsula Campaign, March-July, 1862
   
   1. 
      Southern Victory
      
   2. 
      McClellan: “VA Creeper”; relieved of command
      
5. 
   Second Bull Run/Manassas
   
   1. 
      Southern Victory
      
   2. 
      Pope retreats; relieved
      
   3. 
      McClellan restored
      
6. 
   Antietam/Sharpsburg, Sept 17, 1862
   
   1. 
      Draw/Lincoln claims narrow victory
      
   2. 
      Turned back first Confederate invasion of North
      
   3. 
      Single Bloodiest day-22, 720.
      
      1. 
         3 parts: Cornfield and Dunkard Church, Bloody Lane, Burnside Bridge