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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 158— Civil War Espionage May 15, 2017

Focus: During the Civil War, messengers often carried coded messages. See if you can decipher the code below: MARBLES HQW TVJQWU CPFG PGOA VTQQRUYK NNET QUUVJG TKXGTVQ OQTTQY Hint: the word "MARBLES" meant that you should replace each letter with the one two letters before it in the alphabet.

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 536-537 stop @ Battle of Gettysburg (due 5/17)-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 537-540 start @ Battle of Gettysburg/stop @Union Campaigns Cripple the Confederacy (due 5/19)-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:Newspaper articles

I. Wild Bill HickokII. Civil War Media

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Wild Bill Hickok Espionage Newspapers David O. Dodd

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:What Confederate General relied on Newspapers when making his plans?Why espionage so easy in the Civil War?How has the media coverage of war changed from the Civil War until today? How did Southerners view David O. Dodd?

NotesClass 158— Civil War Espionage

May 15, 2017

Spying in the Civil War, with both sides speaking the same language and knowing each other so intimately, was a relatively simple matter. Furthermore, the battle lines were so extended in all theaters of the war that they could be penetrated with ease.

Example: Wild Bill Hickok-supported the Uniono Spied in Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansaso spent much of his time behind enemy lines disguised as a hillbillyo Even would disguise himself in Confederate uniforms to gain information

Newspapers: newspapers of the time didn’t have much tact and often printed of troop movements and plans of attack A shrewd general, in fact, had little need for an intelligence service, provided he had a steady supply of

newspapers published in enemy territoryo Preparing for the Battle of Chickamauga in Tennessee, Confederate General Braxton Bragg received a

New York Times clipping which explained precisely how the Unionists would fool him into a shift of position. Bragg stayed put.

o Near Vicksburg a Northern spy brought his superior a newspaper story in which a correspondent described in full the Federal plans for a "secret canal" behind the Mississippi. The project had to be dropped.

Robert E. Lee used secret agents to supply him with every available Northern newspaper. The Virginian studied them by the hour, noting, comparing, questioning. A Southern spy with a copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer provided information of a withdrawal by McClellan; as a result, Lee shifted thousands of troops. The Southerner's military shrewdness kept him from accepting false stories planted for his benefit, and Lee himself once inserted a fake in Confederate papers.

David O. Dodd Arkansas Supposed to be visiting and doing some work for his father Found carrying a note Captured and put on trial

o Guilty was the verdict, hanging was the sentenceo He set the time of execution between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on January 8, and designated the parade

ground in front of St. John's Masonic College as the place. The college which David had attended Legend of his final words: “…like Nathan Hale, my only regret is that I have but one life to give to my country."

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 159— Bloody Bill AndersonMay 16, 2017

Focus: Answer this question in at least six (6) good sentences: Why do you think Americans felt the need to massacre their fellow Americans? This will be collected.

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 536-537 stop @ Battle of Gettysburg (due 5/17)-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 537-540 start @ Battle of Gettysburg/stop @Union Campaigns Cripple the Confederacy (due 5/19)-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:none

I. Guerilla Warfare A. Partisan Ranger Act II. Bloody Bill Anderson

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Guerilla Warfare Partisan Ranger Act Bloody Bill Anderson Carnival of Blood

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:Who was Bloody Bill Anderson?What is a guerilla?Where did you find of a lot guerillas fighting in the Civil War?

NotesClass 159— Bloody Bill Anderson

May 16, 2017Guerrillas:

Partisan Ranger Act: CSA onlyo Alternative to the draft-stay close to families but harass Union troops-mostly older meno turn over captured supplies/soldiers to Confederate armyo Could be exchangedo Union soldiers called them “bushwhackers”

CSA called Union guerrillas “jayhawks” Both USA & CSA guerrillas blurred the lines b/t politics, warfare, and crime

Bloody Bill Anderson: Confederate Guerrilla Scalped victims Kept track of how many men he killed by tying knots in a rope Centralia, MO-“carnival of blood”

o Kills 22 unarmed Union soldiers Eventually killed while trying to escape from the Union

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 160— Fredericksburg May 17, 2017

Focus: Why is the high ground important in battle?

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 537-540 start @ Battle of Gettysburg/stop @Union Campaigns Cripple the Confederacy (due 5/19)-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:none

I. Fredericksburg II. Chancellorsville III. Civil War Letters

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Ambrose Burnside Stonewall Jackson George McClellan George PickettRobert E. Lee

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:Who dies at Chancellorsville?Why did the Confederates cheer the Union army at Fredericksburg?

NotesClass 160— Fredericksburg

May 17, 2017

Fredericksburg: Ambrose Burnside has replaced George McClellan as commander of the Union army Burnside will attack Lee’s army six times. He will fail all six times. George Pickett: CSA General

o “Your soldier’s heart almost stood still as we watched those sons of Erin fearlessly rush to their death. The brilliant assault…was beyond description.”

o “we forgot they were fighting us, and cheer after cheer at their fearlessness went up all along our lines.” one of the Union’s greatest defeats of the entire war

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 160— Chancellorsville May 18, 2017

Focus: Why do you think Stonewall Jackson was so beloved by his men and respected by the Union army?

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 537-540 start @ Battle of Gettysburg/stop @Union Campaigns Cripple the Confederacy (due 5/19)-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:none

I. Chancellorsville A. Stonewall Jackson

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Chancellorsville Stonewall Jackson Dr. Hunter McGuire John D. BerryMary Ann Jackson

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:Who gave the order to fire on Jackson?What happened to Jackson’s arm?Where was Jackson shot?

NotesClass 160— Chancellorsville

May 18, 2017

Jackson’s views/beliefs/actions: Jackson liked war-“delightful excitement” he attained in combat ordered the bravest shot down-weaken all of those whose discipline draws on that bravery courage was equated only with success, and command error would be ruthlessly defined as a defect in courage His cool courage, spare personal style, and battlefield victories exerted a mesmeric hold on his men “He places no value on human life, caring for nothing so much as fighting, unless it be praying.” “For many on both sides, Stonewall Jackson was the war’s highest exemplification of courage.”

Chancellorsville: It is fitting that Jackson did die in the war. He once stated, “Each of us has his duty to perform, without regard to

consequences; we must perform it and trust in providence.” Jackson was riding through dense vegetation Encountered intense small arms fire from the Confederate 18th North Carolina regiment under the command of

Major John D. Barry who gave the order to fire Jackson was struck once in the right hand and twice in the left arm and was almost unhorsed Taken to Dr. Hunter McGuire, considered the South’s leading Surgeon Jackson given standard first aid: arterial compression, whiskey, and morphine Left humorous (upper arm bone) and brachial artery were damaged and required amputation two inches below

the soldier. Jackson was given chloroform Just before his death in a stat of delirium Jackson says “Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to

the front rapidly! Tel. Major Hawks….” Jackson stops and a smile comes across his face and he says in an expression of relief “Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.”

The Union soldiers at Chancellorsville hear the following statement, “In view of the fact that [Stonewall Jackson] was wounded by our division and also as a mark of respect to a gallant Christian soldier the division will receive the announcement [of his death] with uncovered heads.”

Major John D. Barry, the man that gave the order to fire on Jackson, died two years after the war at the age of 27. His family said that he died of depression and guilt from giving the order to fire on Jackson.

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7th Grade Social Studies Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Class 162— Gettysburg Day 1 May 19, 2017

Focus: If the South’s strategy for victory was to fight a defensive war, why do you think General Lee had his army so far north into Pennsylvania?

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Homework:-Read and Outline Chapter 16, Section 5 pgs. 540-543; complete Reading Check 16.5 (due 5/26)-Civil War Map Quiz Thursday 6/1-Chapter 16 Test Friday 6/2

Handouts:none

I. GettysburgA. Day 1B. Day 2

Key terms/ideas/ people/places:Gettysburg Culp’s Hill Cemetery Hill Seminary Ridge Big Round TopLittle Round Top Devil’s Den George Meade Fish Hook

By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:Why was General Lee in PA?

NotesClass 162— Gettysburg Day 1

May 19, 2017

Why is General Lee so far North? Railroad in Harrisburg Victory on northern soil could bring in European aid or help end war Turn East and attack Washington, D.C.

General Lee (CSA) vs. General Meade (USA) Lee’s Plans

o outflank the Union; frontal attack Meade’s Plans

o Keep the high ground

Day 1: Accident

o Confederate troops ran into Union horsemen on the Chambersburg Pike, northwest of town. Each side sent for help. The rebels got there first, and by afternoon had driven the Union south of town, where they rallied into defensive positions