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Unit Overview: War in the South
This Unit covers the year 1864. Important events/themes covered in this unit:
Rise of General William T. Sherman
The Wilderness Campaign
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
Battles of Petersburg and Atlanta
Civil War prison camps
Assassination of Lincoln
Unit Essay: The War of Attrition
In order to get credit for this project, you must write an essay on the following topic:
The War of Attrition
Attrition is the military strategy in which a belligerent side attempts to win a war by wearing down its enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel. Historians often describe 1864 as a war of attrition against the South. Indeed, 1864 was such a heavy year of fighting in the Civil War that one Union soldier remarked that he felt he was constantly, "Walking through the valley of the shadow of death." This was the year that General Grant and his trusted Lieutenant William T. Sherman proceeded to break the back of the South through a total war of brutal attrition. Consider some of the campaigns and battles of 1864, and write a well-developed essay of no less than 600 words explaining how the North waged a war of attrition against the South in 1864.
Some helpful links for this essay:
The Wilderness (Overland) Campaign
General William Tecumseh Sherman, an early advocate of "Total War"
Civil War History Unit 4 Key Terms
Civil War Unit 4 Key Terms
For this project you must define the terms listed below and explain each term's significance to the unit/era being studied. Your definition should be 2-3 sentences long and may be copied and pasted from a source like Wikipedia, but the significance of the term must be in your own words and based on your own understanding. To fill out a term's significance, ask yourself, "Why is this item included in my study of this unit? Why is this term in a history book?" The answer to this question is your term's significance.
Unit 4 Key Terms:
Battle of Chickamauga
Chattanooga Campaign
General William T. Sherman
The Wilderness (Overland) Campaign
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of Cold Harbor
Atlanta Campaign
General Joseph Johnston
General John B. Hood
Valley Campaigns of 1864
General Philip Sheridan
Sherman's March to the Sea
scorched earth (policy)
Battle of Nashville
Siege of Petersburg
Andersonville and Elmira prisons
Election of 1864
John Wilkes Booth
Below is an example of a key term done with the proper format:
William the Conqueror: William I (c. 1028[2] – 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant), was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II. Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard because of the illegitimacy of his birth.To press his claim to the English crown, William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen (from Paris andÎle-de-France) to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.[3] (I copied and pasted this definition from Wikipedia)
Significance: William the Conqueror is significant because his conquest of England created the first nation state in Europe. His rearrangement of English feudal territories to give himself dramatically more power than the the barons and nobles around him caused him to be the most powerful monarch in Europe and eventually led to the rise of other nation states over the next few centuries. (These are my words based on my knowledge of English and European history.)
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