Army Vocabulary

  • Combat arms:
    • Infantry // Artillery // Cavalry
  • Infantry structure:
    • Company // Regiment // Brigade // Division // Corps // Field army

 

 

 

 

Diplomacy and Trent Affair (1861)

  • William Seward (Secretary of State) // Charles Francis Adams (US minister to Britain)\
  • Neutrality
  • Blockades
  • Contraband and Prizes
  • James Mason & John Slidell with Captain Charles Wilkes

Trent

Shiloh (April 1862)

  • Casualties:  13,000 Union vs. 11,000 Confederate
  • 3,400 combined combat deaths (4x total from Bull Run)

Northern Homefront

  • US Sanitary Commission
  • Relief associations
  • Missionary and church societies
  • Vigilant and benevolent committees
  • Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Mary Livermore
  • “Mother” Mary Ann Bickerdyke
  • “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
  • “Battle Cry of Freedom”

Southern Homefront

  • Patriotic and benevolent groups
  • Kate Cumming
  • “My Maryland”
  • “Dixie”

Abolition Begins

  • Revised Articles of War –fugitive slaves (March 1862)
  • Lincoln’s border state proposal (March 1862)
  • DC Abolition (April 1862)