DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A SECTION 3 The War in TEKS 8A, 8B, 10A the West What You Will Learn… If YOU were there... Main Ideas You live in the city of Vicksburg, set on high bluffs above the Missis- 1. Union strategy in the West sippi River. Vicksburg is vital to the control of the river, and Confederate centered on control of the Mississippi River. defenses are strong. But the Union general is determined to take the 2. Confederate and Union town. For weeks, you have been surrounded and besieged. Cannon troops struggled for domi- nance in the Far West. shells burst overhead, day and night. Some have fallen on nearby homes. Supplies of food are running low. The Big Idea How would you survive this siege? Fighting in the Civil War spread to the western United States. Key Terms and People Ulysses S. Grant, p. 522 BUILDING BACKOU GR ND The Civil War was fought on many fronts, Battle of Shiloh, p. 523 all across the continent and even at sea. In the East, fighting was at first David Farragut, p. 524 concentrated in Virginia. In the West, cities and forts along the Mississippi Siege of Vicksburg, p. 524 River were the main target of Union forces. Northern control of the river would cut off the western states of the Confederacy. Use the graphic organizer online to Union Strategy in the West take notes on Civil War battles in the West. While Lincoln fumed over the cautious, hesitant General McClellan, he had no such problems with Ulysses S. Grant. Bold and restless, Grant grew impatient when he was asked to lead defensive maneu- vers. He wanted to be on the attack. As a commander of forces in the Union’s western campaign, he would get his wish. The western campaign focused on taking control of the Missis- sippi River. This strategy would cut off the eastern part of the Con- federacy from sources of food production in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. From bases on the Mississippi, the Union army could attack southern communication and transportation networks. In February 1862, Grant led an assault force into Tennessee. With help from navy gunboats, Grant’s Army of the Tennessee took two outposts on key rivers in the west. On February 6, he captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. Several days later he took Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. Fort Donelson’s commander asked for the terms of surrender. Grant replied, “No terms except an unconditional and immediate 522 CHAPTER 16 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A IN Louisville VA KS r MO ive IL Ohio R KY The War in the West Ft. Donelson Paducah Feb. 1862 Nashville A r Murfreesboro ka Ft. Henry NC ns T Dec. 1862–Jan. 1863 as Feb. 1862 N R A GR i R A v G TN N Chattanooga e Shiloh T r April 1862 Nov. 1863 INDIAN TERRITORY AR Memphis HRW Middle School American History Chickamauga T Corinth Sept. 1863 ah06se_c15loc012ca.ai N JOH A NST SC War in the West, 1862–63 R . ON G R Atlanta i Union state or territory Map Area: 7p6 wide X 4p6 high p p i s Union occupied 1863 s i 3rd proof date: 11/04/04-Final s GA s i AL Confederate state Sa Approved 12/08/04 MS bin M e R Union forces iver Vicksburg May–July 1863 N Union blockade Jackson E Union victory LA Natchez W Confederate forces S Port Hudson Confederate victory TX Mobile May–July 1863 Baton Rouge 30°N 0 100 200 Miles New Orleans 0 100 200 Kilometers April 1862 80°W FA RR AG UT FL E HRW Middle School American History UNION BLOCKAD GEOGRAPHY ah07bs_c15leg012aa.aiSKILLS INTERPRETING MAPS Gulf of Mexico War in the West, 1862–63 1. Location What river did Union forces fight to control? 90°W Map Area: 49p6 wide x 29p9 high 2. Human-Environment Interaction Why do you think so many battles took place along rivers? 1st proof date - 2/21/05 Final-02/24/05 surrender can be accepted.” The fort surren- The Fall of New Orleans dered. The North gave a new name to Grant’s As Grant battled his way down the Missis- initials: “Unconditional Surrender” Grant. sippi, the Union navy prepared to blast its Advancing south in Tennessee, General way upriver to meet him. The first obstacle Grant paused near Shiloh Church to await was the port of New Orleans, the largest city the arrival of the Army of the Ohio. Grant in the Confederacy and the gateway to the knew that the large rebel army of General A. Mississippi River. HRW National AmericanS. Johnston History was nearby in Corinth, Missis- ah07bs_c15map012aa.aisippi, but he did not expect an attack. Instead War in the West, of1862–63 setting up defenses, he worked on drilling B IOGRAPHY Map Area: 49p6 widehis newx 29p9 recruits. high David Farragut 1st proof date - 2/21/05In the early morning of April 6, 1862, the Final-02/24/05 rebels sprang on Grant’s sleepy camp. This (1801–1870) began the Battle of Shiloh, in which the David Farragut was born in Tennessee to a Span- Union army gained greater control of the ish father and an American mother. At age seven Mississippi River valley. Farragut was adopted by a family friend who During the bloody two-day battle, each agreed to train the young boy for the navy. Farragut received his first navy position—midshipman at side gained and lost ground. Johnston was large—at age nine and commanded his first vessel killed on the first day. The arrival of the Ohio at 12. He spent the rest of his life in the U.S. Navy. force helped Grant regain territory and push Farragut led key attacks on the southern ports of the enemy back into Mississippi. The armies Vicksburg and New Orleans. finally gave out, each with about 10,000 casualties. Both sides claimed victory, but, in Drawing Inferences How did Farragut help the war fact, the victor was Grant. effort of the North? THE CIVIL WAR 523 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A With 18 ships and 700 men, Admiral The Siege of Vicksburg David Farragut approached the two forts Vicksburg’s geography made invasion all that guarded the entrance to New Orleans but impossible. Perched on 200-foot-high from the Gulf of Mexico. Unable to destroy cliffs above the Mississippi River, the city the forts, Farragut decided to race past them. could rain down firepower on enemy ships The risky operation would take place at or on soldiers trying to scale the cliffs. Deep night. Farragut had his wooden ships wrapped gorges surrounded the city, turning back in heavy chains to protect them like iron- land assaults. Nevertheless, Farragut ordered clads. Sailors slapped Mississippi mud on the Vicksburg to surrender. ships’ hulls to make them hard to see. Trees were tied to the masts to make the ships look “Mississippians don’t know, and refuse to learn, like the forested shore. how to surrender . If Commodore Farragut . can teach them, let [him] come and try. Before dawn on April 24, 1862, the war- ” —Colonel James L. Autry, ships made their daring dash. The Confederates military commander of Vicksburg fired at Farragut’s ships from the shore and Farragut’s guns had trouble reaching the from gunboats. They launched burning rafts, city above. It was up to General Grant. His one of which scorched Farragut’s own ship. But solution was to starve the city into surrender. his fleet slipped by the twin forts and made it to General Grant’s troops began the Siege New Orleans. The city fell on April 29. of Vicksburg in mid-May 1863, cutting off Farragut sailed up the Mississippi River, the city and shelling it repeatedly. As food ran taking Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Natchez, out, residents and soldiers survived by eating Mississippi. He then approached the city of horses, dogs, and rats. “We are utterly cut Vicksburg, Mississippi. off from the world, surrounded by a circle of fire,” wrote one woman. “People do nothing Primary Source SPEECH Response to Farragut The mayor of New Orleans considered the surrender of the city to the Union navy: We yield to physical force alone and The Union navy played an impor- maintain“ allegiance to the Confederate tant part in the Civil War. Besides States; beyond this, a due respect for our blockading and raiding southern dignity, our rights and the flag of our ports, the navy joined battles country does not, I think, permit us to along the Mississippi River, as in go.” this painting of Vicksburg. ­–Mayor John T. Monroe, quoted in Confederate Military History, Vol. 10 ANALYSIS SKILL ANALYZING PRIMARY SOURCES How does Monroe’s statement reveal his attitude about surrender? 524 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A but eat what they can get, sleep when they READING CHECK Analyzing What was the can, and dodge the shells.” importance of the fighting in the Far West? The Confederate soldiers were also sick and hungry. In late June a group of soldiers sent their commander a warning. SUMMARY AND PREVIEW The North and the South continued their struggle with “The army is now ripe for mutiny [rebellion], battles in the West. A number of key battles unless it can be fed. If you can’t feed us, you’d took place in the Western theater, and sev- better surrender us, horrible as the idea is.” —Confederate soldiers at Vicksburg to eral important Union leaders emerged from General John C.