8A Sara Kim - Battle of Wilderness Screencast
Hi Mr. Hernandez, this is Sara Kim from your A block and this screencast is about the Battle of Wilderness.
Before the Wilderness Battle, there was a series of successive Confederate victories. The solution that President Lincoln came up with was to appoint a new general because he attributed the Union failures to indecision and lack of aggression amongst his generals. Lincoln decided to appoint Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant as supreme commander of the Union army because he was impressed by Grant's successes in the western theater. At the time, the general of the Confederate army was Robert. E. Lee.
The Union's general, Ulysses Grant, was 42 years old when he fought the battle and he raised spirit of the Union army as the new general. The Confederacy's general, Robert. E. Lee, was 57 years old, and he had a history of declining Lincoln's offer to be the Union's general in 1861.
For the Union at the time, Lincoln thought that the priority should be the destruction of the Confederate army rather than the taking of Richmond. He believed that once the army was defeated, Richmond would have no option but to surrender. Grant boosted the number of troops he had available to nearly double the amount available to the Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee. He realized that it might take much longer to gain total victory, and knew his resources could last longer than those of the Confederates'. His mindset, therefore, was to engage the enemy at every possible opportunity, regardless of cost. For the Confederacy, Lee had been anticipating the more aggressive approach that Grant was likely to take, and had given careful consideration to how the Union general was likely to initiate his campaign. The Union engaged 101,895 men and the Confederacy engaged 61,025 men in the battle.
Here is the timeline of the battle. 1864 May 5th 1PM, Grant ordered his corps to attack Saunders Field. 3PM, the the Confederate army repulsed. At 4PM, the Confederate army counter-attacked along Orange Plank Road, but repulsed by the Union. On May 6th 11AM, the Union attacked the Brock Road and almost breaks the Confederate defense. However, at 5PM, the Confederate reinforcement corps arrived and counter-attacked, but was repulsed. At 6PM, the Confederate army attacked Saunders Field, but was repulsed. The battle ended because the fires burned through the forest on May 7. The result of this battle was inconclusive. Unlike other commanders of the Union. Army before him, Grant pursued the fight, marching his troops toward Spotsylvania and another battle with General Lee.
Here's the map analysis. At 1PM, May 5th, Union army represented in blue attacked Sanders field, but was repulsed at 3PM. At 4PM, the Confederacy attacked along Orange Planked Road, which was repulsed. The next day at 11AM, the Union attacked along Brock road and almost won, but the Confederate reinforcements arrived and counter-attacked. At 6PM, the Confederacy attacked the UNion at Saunders Field, but was resisted. Fighting had to stop when fires burned through the dense forest.
The primary source I found for this battle is a lithograph called Battle of the Wilderness by Kurz & Allison, who were a major publisher of chromolithographs in the 19th century. The artwork shows the gruesome scene of the battle and the thick woods very well, and can be trusted to be an accurate visual representation because the artists published a lot of other civil war battle lithographs too, in a time period that was very close to the battles.
Grant's tactics resulted in the Union army suffering many more casualties than the Confederates did. In total, 2,246 Union soldiers died, 12,037 were wounded, and 3,383 were taken prisoner or missing. On the Confederate side, 1,495 troops were killed, 7,928 were wounded, and 1,702 were taken prisoner or missing. The result of the battle was inconclusive.
The Battle of the Wilderness marked the end of the Confederate rebellion. While neither side were clear winners in the battle, the new strategy adopted by Grant was enough to ensure that the Union army would eventually overcome the Confederates. Once again, Lee had demonstrated his skill as a master tactician and managed to survive a battle he was seriously outnumbered in. However, he found it difficult to replace men and keep supplies coming to his army, whereas this was never a problem for Grant, who essentially had unlimited resources.
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Ulysses S. Grant | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:11 1 Early life and education
00:06:51 2 Early military career and personal life
00:07:02 2.1 West Point and first assignment
00:10:21 2.2 Marriage and family
00:11:26 2.3 Mexican–American War
00:14:41 2.4 Post-war assignments
00:17:49 3 Civilian struggles and politics
00:21:32 4 Civil War
00:22:34 4.1 Early commands
00:24:26 4.2 Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson
00:29:01 4.3 Shiloh and aftermath
00:34:26 4.4 Vicksburg campaign
00:38:36 4.5 Chattanooga and promotion
00:41:55 4.6 Overland Campaign and Petersburg Siege
00:47:16 4.7 Appomattox campaign, and victory
00:49:25 4.8 Lincoln's assassination
00:50:44 5 Commanding General
00:51:45 5.1 Reconstruction
00:53:22 5.2 Break from Johnson
00:56:27 5.3 Election of 1868
00:58:57 6 Presidency (1869–1877)
01:01:49 6.1 Later Reconstruction and civil rights
01:08:38 6.2 Native American iPeace/i policy
01:12:10 6.3 Foreign affairs
01:16:49 6.4 Gold standard and gold conspiracy
01:20:32 6.5 Election of 1872 and second term
01:24:05 6.6 Panic of 1873 and loss of Congress
01:27:15 6.7 Scandals and reform
01:34:34 6.8 Election of 1876
01:36:14 7 Post-presidency
01:36:24 7.1 World tour and diplomacy
01:38:08 7.2 Third term attempt
01:40:26 7.3 Business reversals, speculation and confidence men
01:43:33 7.4 Memoirs, pension, and death
01:49:48 8 Historical reputation
01:53:12 9 Memorials and presidential library
01:55:44 10 See also
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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier, politician, and international statesman who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. During the American Civil War, General Grant, with President Abraham Lincoln, led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy. During the Reconstruction Era, President Grant led the Republicans in their efforts to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism, racism, and slavery.
From early childhood in Ohio, Grant was a skilled equestrian who had a talent for taming horses. He graduated from West Point in 1843 and served with distinction in the Mexican–American War. Upon his return, Grant married Julia Dent, and together they had four children. In 1854, Grant abruptly resigned from the army. He and his family struggled financially in civilian life for seven years. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Grant joined the Union Army and rapidly rose in rank to general. Grant was persistent in his pursuit of the Confederate enemy, winning major battles and gaining Union control of the Mississippi River. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to Lieutenant General, a rank previously reserved for George Washington. For over a year Grant's Army of the Potomac fought the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee in the Overland Campaign and at Petersburg. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, and the war ended.
On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated. Grant continued his service under Lincoln's successor President Andrew Johnson and was promoted General of the Army in 1866. Disillusioned by Johnson's conservative approach to Reconstruction, Grant drifted toward the Radical Republicans. Elected the youngest 19th Century president in 1868, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. He appointed African-Americans and Jewish-Americans to prominent federal offices. In 1871, Grant created the first Civil Service Commission. The Democrats and Liberal Republicans united behind Grant's opponent in the presidential election of 1872, but Grant was handily re-elected. Grant's new Peace Policy for Native Americans had both successes and failures. Grant's administration successfully resolv ...
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Native Americans in the American Civil War
00:00:51 1 Overview
00:08:56 1.1 Problems in the Midwest and West
00:12:03 2 Native Americans in the Confederate Army
00:13:46 2.1 Cherokee
00:13:54 2.1.1 Cherokee in the Trans Mississippi Theater
00:15:15 2.1.2 North Carolina Cherokee in the Western Theater
00:15:41 2.2 Choctaw
00:15:57 2.2.1 Choctaw in the Trans Mississippi Theater
00:18:25 2.2.2 Mississippi Choctaw in the Western Theater
00:20:34 3 Native Americans in the Union Army
00:21:42 3.1 New York
00:22:45 4 Aftermath
00:23:38 5 Tribes involved in battles
00:23:48 6 See also
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The American Civil War saw Native American individuals, bands, tribes, and nations participate in numerous skirmishes and battles. Native Americans served in both the Union and Confederate military during the American Civil War. They were found in the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi Theaters. At the outbreak of the war, for example, the majority of the Cherokees sided with the Union, but soon after allied with the Confederacy. Native Americans fought knowing they might jeopardize their sovereignty, unique cultures, and ancestral lands if they ended up on the losing side of the Civil War. 28,693 Native Americans served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, participating in battles such as Pea Ridge, Second Manassas, Antietam, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and in Federal assaults on Petersburg.