PASSAGES: 1855 - 1877 The Peninsular Campaign Begins
Ch 14: Descent into War, 1861 - 1862
Shiloh
Introduction
New Orleans
The Confederate Draft
War Begins: April 1861 – July 1861
The Seven Days
Lincoln Calls for Troops
Slavery Under Attack
The States Divide
Politics and Diplomacy: Missionaries at Port
Royal
Politics and Diplomacy:
Second Manassas and Antietam
The Numbers
Stalemate
The Strategies
Leadership
The First Conflicts
Conclusions:
Mobilization
Suggested Readings:
The First Battle
Chapter Essay Questions:
Women and War
1. Explain the Union offensive that began
in March of 1862.
War Takes Command: August 1861 –
March 1862
McClellan Assumes Control
The War in the West Begins
Paying for War
The Confederate Homefront
Navies
Economics and Technology: Confederate
Ships Under Construction in England
Diplomacy and the Trent Affair
The Rivers of the West
The Monitor and the Virginia
The Union on the Offensive: March to
September 1862