The Real Soulja Boi

1. The Real Soulja Boi Whitney Patterson, Chane Jacobs, and Phillip Price July 2008

2. Standards Addressed • 8-3.4: Reasons for secession for SC as well as attitudes of others involved such as unionists and abolitionists • 8-3.5: Military Strategies and important battles

3. 1. Tariff (tax): question of future economic power States’ Rights: political argument grounded on the legacy of the Jeffersonian Era (good ole boys) “Equality” within the Union Overall Economy 1830’s dawn of Abolition ALL TRACE BACK TO THE FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT OF SLAVERY The Umbrella Effect The Causes of the Civil War

4. Confederate Secession • The secession documents explicitly point out secession was because of the South’s peculiar institution. http://people.clemson.edu/~pcander/secession.html.

5. Confederate Advantages • Playing offensive: Confederates have to NOT LOSE • Republican Ideology (Way of thinking, consumed every aspect of thought) • Liberty: Precious, fragile and weak • Power: Selfish, grasping, always working to overcome Liberty • Vigilance: On guard • Virtue: Internal defense of Liberty • Corruption: Selfish, Power through Conspiracy • Conspiracy: Proof Power moves secretly • Better knowledge of terrain (property) • Better leadership

6. Union Advantages • Population: 2,200,000 to 1,064,000 • Railroads • Industry: could mass produce arms, ammunition, cannons, etc.

7. States that seceded before April 15th, 1861 States that seceded after April 15th, 1861 Union States that permitted slavery Union States that forbade slavery Territories, unaffiliated Maps

8. Fort Sumter • April 12th, 1861 at 4:30 am • Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard fired the shots on Major Anderson

9. Fort Sumter In her Charleston hotel room, diarist Mary Chesnet heard the opening shot. "I sprang out of bed." she wrote. "And on my knees--prostrate--I prayed as I never prayed before." The shelling of Fort Sumter from the batteries ringing the harbor awakened Charleston's residents, who rushed out into the predawn darkness to watch the shells arc over the water and burst inside the fort. Mary Chesnut went to the roof of her hotel, where the men were cheering the batteries and the women were praying and crying. Her husband, Col. James Chesnut, had delivered Beauregard's message to the fort. "I knew my husband was rowing around in a boat somewhere in that dark bay," she wrote, "and who could tell what each volley accomplished of death and destruction?“ http://www.us-civilwar.com/sumter.htm

10. 1861 Picnic mentality Directly affected the way of life of all involved, including Carolinians Thomas Jackson dubbed his name Stonewall “Oh men, there are Jackson and his Virginians, standing behind you like a stone wall! Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Follow me.” ~General Barnard Bee Birth of Rebel Yell Confederate victory Manassas

11. Battle at Fredricksburg • A win for the South • Fought in Fredricksburg, VA • From Dec. 11-15, 1862 • one of the most one-sided battles of the Civil War • Brought an early end to a campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond. • The Union Army came with about 20,000 soldiers and there were about 12,000 casualties

12. 1 pm  December 13th Battle 3:30 pm  Key: Confederate Union

13. Chancellorsville • A Confederate Victory • Known as Lee’s “perfect battle” because of his risky but successful Division of his army • Jackson was shot

14. May 1st and 2nd May 3rd May 4th

15. Gettysburg

16. Gettysburg • Turning point of the war • Picketts Charge • Commanders George G. Meade vs. Robert E. Lee • Strength • 93,921: North • 71,699: South • Casualties • 23,055: North • (3,155 killed,14,531 wounded,5,369 captured/missing) • 23,231: South(4,708 killed,12,693 wounded,5,830 captured/missing)

17. Union Win at Gettysburg • Significance: • The turning point of the war. After success at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Lee invades the north again. After trying to break the union lines for 2 days, Lee tries a frontal assault on entrenched union forces. This was known as Pickett’s charge. This attempt failed miserably. Lee ultimately retreats to Virginia. This would be the last chance for the South to win the war and threaten the North.

19. Sherman’s march on Atlanta • Atlanta, Georgia (Sherman’s march to the sea) • Union Commander: General William Sherman • Confederate Commander: General John Hood • July 20-September 2, 1864 • Casualties: Union-31,623 Confederate-35,044 • Winner: Union

20. Implications of Atlanta • Atlanta, Georgia (Sherman’s march to the sea) • Union Commander: General William Sherman • Confederate Commander: General John Hood • July 20-September 2, 1864 • Casualties: Union-31,623 Confederate-35,044 • Winner: Union

21. On to the Coast • Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." On December 26, the president replied in a letter:

22. For South Carolinians……… =

23. Some even went as far in South Carolina to brand this man the Devil Incarnate, the Antichrist if you will. They even regard his Campaign of the Carolinas and his March to the Sea as a sort of Satanic crusades. Thoughts on Sherman "I dont see any horns. You are supposed to have horns" A child's answer to Sherman's question of why he repeatedly was staring at his head.

24. No love lost for SC • "Im Going to march to Richmond.....and when I go through South Carolina it will be one of the most horrible things in the history of the world. The devil himself couldn’t restrain my men in that state. " William Tecumseh Sherman prior to his infamous Campaign of the Carolinas

25. South Carolina (reasons he hated us) • We were the “Cradle of Secession” • We were the first to Secede • He thought we were a small, but cocky state that had brought forth the 4 years of hardship on the nation called the American Civil War. South Carolina would have to pay and as General W.T. Sherman hoped the 1861 occupation of Fort Sumter by Major Anderson would do, "show South Carolina for the first time in her existence she cannot do as she pleases".

26. 1865 Scourging the Carolinas • Sherman devastates the Carolinas on his way back to meet up with Grant in Virginia • Beauregard split his troops. • Confederates are no match, evacuate Feb17,1865 • He burns 1/3 of the city Columbia • Moves on to North Carolina

27. Appomattox Courthouse • Surrender of Lee

28. Lee’s Surrender • On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered his army of Northern Virginia in a little village called Appomattox Courthouse. Lee surrendered formally to Ulysses S. Grant. The papers of formal surrender were signed in the home of Wilmer Mclean, whose first house was damaged during the first battle of the Civil War.

29. Back to Sherman in NC • Two weeks after Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox, Johnston surrenders at Durham Station, April 26 1865, to Sherman’s March. • In May, Union cavalry conducted a raid through Spartanburg and Greenville in search of Jefferson Davis. • The last cabinet meeting of the Confederate States was held in Abbeville on May 2. • The Civil War was at an end.

30. Fun Quotes • War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over"- Union General William T. Sherman said this shortly before beginning his brutal March to the Sea • Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet! -Jackson • "I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States." –Jeb Stuart

31. Fix Bayonets Ya’ll We are going to do an activity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa2hv8U8cWU

32. Resources • http://members.aol.com/x69xer/index.html • www.walnutcreeksd.org/1064206142233747/lib/1064206142233747/Civil_War_Battles_ppt.PPT • Wikipedia.org • South Carolina, A History. Walter Edgar