• Bounty• Conscription• Commissions• Rifling

The Civil War

Other names for the civil war

• War Between the States• War of the Rebellion• War Against Slavery• War for Abolition• War for the Union• War for Southern Independence• War of Secession

• War for Southern Rights• War Against Northern Aggression• The Lost Cause• War for Constitutional Liberty• Second American Revolution• War for States’ Rights• Mr. Lincoln’s War• The Southern Rebellion• War of the Southern Planters• Second War for Independence

• War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance• The Brothers’ War• The Great Rebellion• War for Southern nationality• The Yankee Invasion• War for Separation• The Confederate War• The War of the Southrons• War for Southern Freedom• War of the North and South• The Late Unpleasantness

Filling the ranks

• In the beginning, there were enough volunteers to fill the army

• States paid a bounty (large bonus) to those who joined

• Congress had to practice conscription. begin drafting men to fill the ranks

• You could pay $300 to get out of the draft or you could hire a substitute if your name was called

• Immigrants often substituted to earn money

New York Draft Riot

• Irish immigrants felt the draft was unfair and started a riot

• Lasted 4 days• Vented anger on local blacks• 128 people killed

• The South had the Twenty Negro Law– Anyone with 20 slaves or more was exempt from

the draft

Preparing Civilians

In the North

• Women entered the work force– Factories produced war materials

• Farm production became more mechanized– Fewer people were needed to grow crops so they

were free to fight

• Commissions were used.– They were private volunteer groups– Helped provide medicine and other reading

material for soldiers

In the South

• The factories were also producing war materials, but could not produce enough

• The South didn’t have a good transportation system for moving these goods

• The farmers and plantation owners joined the army, leaving the women to manage the farms

Civil War Innovations

• Railroads were used to move soldiers

• The cavalry was used as the eyes and ears of the armies

• Manned balloons were used to report on enemy movements

• The telegraph was used to communicate

• Rifling (making small spiral grooves in the barrels of guns and cannons) was used

• Ironclad warships were used– Confederates had the Merrimac– Union had the Monitor

• Photography allowed us to see the destruction of the civil war

• Mathew Brady formed a team of photographers and followed troops

Mathew Brady