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YouTube by the end of 1860 the cords of once bound Union together in person memories of the country struggle against Great Britain reference to the Constitution revision of American Destiny as a nation are no longer enough to hold some stuff together the election of 1861 of our theater about the presidential elections the National Party candidates that stand Regional divide National legislature with mean that their Liberty was going to be violated because their Liberty was tied with their way of life was based upon slavery and they couldn't have that it was alone they will not tolerate this black Republic at their present no matter what he said they feel he is a dagger change that their heart to achieve our own independence isn't really the political leadership in South Carolina that close quickly to you say to the people that stay in really do the people that sell we should no longer study and she was sure that Lincoln had won the legislature call for a convention to consider South Carolina's position within the United States baby because Charleston was more radical City and in Charleston on December 20th 1860 voting unanimously to leave but South Carolina doesn't want to stand alone in this act of succession slaves day Define immediate each of them held a convention mean in a way they were doing something that was Radical but they were law-abiding because they held a constitutional convention there what did a provisional government they wrote Constitution so all these things were a place based upon their experience as American as part cast of American but now they were the Confederate States of America Lincoln vote for millions of Americans when he watch this in horror and he said just leave anytime you want we won the election fair and square if you leave the union now then what happened to the United States the union is older than any of the states and in fact he created states there for States search theaters in the NFL have no other legal status so this means that there's no such thing as she session a constitutional right to see session or notification Constitution is a command some the ultimate Authority is not a bargain it's not a compact with their tension in their Fleet that they would have never gone to the Constitutional Convention they would have never signed off of it if they believed that they couldn't leave if they some great and Justin Drew. From November to March neither side considered the temporary permanent the President Buchanan Democratic party would still be ruling the country and in the four months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln inauguration March 1861 all kinds of compromises with floated in the air compromise he would negotiate he would listen to what southern so they can live with him you know he was not. You know their enemy and in any total thing stop either in fact the 7 Professional hope to establish their own national government before Lincoln is inaugurated on March 4th indeed when the Confederates assembled in Montgomery they acted in amazing Accord I think the United not only two days but also  to their comrades in the Confederacy and the Border song with him and Hayes elected a president and vice president and adopted a provisional patent and Braylon Barlow on the bay a criminal for this new Southern Republic President Jefferson Davis Davis was president in part because he had enemies it was a leader in the southern rights action in the Democratic party and in the states Federal for two of particular importance one was outside of the harbor of Charleston that was occupied by federal troops under command of Major Robert Anderson there was another fort in Florida that was taken over by the town early on and president Beach actually for the first time in his political career took a pretty firm stand on his he said Steve's sports are United States property and intend to keep them but he didn't do anything about it really you can imagine how difficult it was there wasn't a textbook that you could go to our rules and regulations what when states seceded that there would be no that the Yankees were not going to fight they had no stomach for it they didn't care I didn't care I know what all this was planned but I think Google Fantasy took place in the United States Lincoln's on Christmas online and believe that whatever was going on in Montgomery it was a sham and there was no base and if there's a war they'll be a few generals but no one to confront enforces the United States acknowledge real speech spoke to the better angels of our nature appeal to the south on the one hand to come back into the Union I'm done slavery will be protected and promise but he also said and he always kept his promise it was a very important part of who he was he said no slavery would be allowed in the territory by March of 1861 Garrison of federal troops to the top Refuge at Fort Sumter on you for the construction and Charleston Harbor is running out of food and supplies Commander Robert and refused to President Lincoln's for him when does excited that the best course would be to send to ship to resupply the fort in order to preserve Federal power but he wanted to make sure that it would seen as a peaceful gesture the north would not be setting in a conflict in Jefferson Davis cabinet he was also discussing this what should they do Jefferson Davis Montgomery heard from his Commander at Pensacola that he could not cancel for Pickens with a Divya Landing in a rush across the sand dunes and support and he said that the odds of that with 50/50 Jefferson Davis needed better odds than that if he was going to fight one battle when it in when it run the sound and this what's up the promise because they were what about a hundred soldiers on the Fortress most of the guns were probably not placed and would not by our anyway Davis bleed and Davis add a Confederate Army and love tester on the militia ringing before it ready to unleash or tilt so what something beginning of the war you might as well have it their general in charge of the defense of Charleston Harbor with a man named Beauregard West Point graduate and someone who knew Robert Anderson it was decided that Beauregard and this is in the early days April of 1861 would take a boat and go out to Fort Sumter under a flag of truce and explain it's time for you to give up you know you're supposed lights are running out just come with us to render the fort and there will not be any shots exchange any Bloodshed Robert Anderson to do that and what you had was the classic standoff Beauregard ordered the casting to be taken in the early morning hours of April 9th hey Zachary outnumbered Paul Federal Garretson's was surrendered at the end of the day and then nclack went down over the harbor of Charleston War has begun citizens of both the North and the South respond the Mobile station went very very quickly in the game their militia to join the United States Army the picnics in the parade volunteers bubbles with cakes and cookies and adoring looks do we know what to do with all these young men who were pouring into volunteer offices and Camp throughout the country desperately wanting to get into the app before it was over because both sides thought it was going to be a very very short war and so the initial problem with simply how do we get organized very General of the United States Army was Winfield Scott  Winfield Scott nickname a hero in the Mexican War and serve actually was in the War of 1812 early ideas about how to use the northern resources and how to end the war quickly as what's a bowl can best be summarized as the Anaconda Plan to Anaconda being this giant snake that squeezes his victim to death and what's plan which was endorsed by Lincoln at first was literally a bloodless War I mean it would have been good to think that you could squeeze the play back into the Union by blockading the Atlantic coast by constructing a cordon of Defense up and down the Mississippi River so that the real pain that the South would feel would be economic what is Yokai was in normal SeaTac  enormously and often grease a clearly unable to lead an active campaign in the field. plot strategy from Washington and send his subordinates into the field the one you wanted them what's the property lien served under him Wright station in Mexico is home background were Amazon Things become a regular I think he's wife later to kill him in his bed had he been play the army that destroyed the southern Republic  initially the material advantage seems to reside with the North and even though the north on the face of it had all the resources in the South have none I think it is we look back and judge this in a fair way the North had much trouble as the South mobilizing their resources for what would become a total war and neither side was prepared for it because frankly both sides felt that this would be a war that would be over quickly  you don't see as much grow during 60s and you do during the 1850s or the 1870s what these industries are bellwethers of The Next Century things like steel and petroleum these were important in the American Civil War, iron was even a production recognized agriculture Europe for example warning southern cotton but had to have Northern Fleet and so the ex food stops on a road was one of the things that kept you out of the war  many of the public policy initiatives link play the phone during his campaign are enacted into law during the early days of his administration the Republicans became the Willing allies the partners of industrial capitalism the cheerleader for the expanding industrial economy and this they did through higher tariffs in 1861 the Homestead Act in 1862 that opens up public land to people who will go and settle on it Congress passed a whole raft of reforms to nationalize all kinds of processes you had the national banking acts you had new currency laws that are meant to call did you mean together Battle of the war in Northern Virginia cast of Once all the tabs you had the Battle of Bull Run fought in July in 1861 Coleman South you had some chance of both armies that each side with false now that battle was a great southern victory we had taken to its heels and run them in cases literally all the way back to Washington the Confederates believe that their everything was wonderful and they had to confirm are there nationhood the United States and Abraham Lincoln more than anyone delete Lincoln policy at the time was still going to be based on the assumption that the southerners what's the north won a few battles that they would want to come back because of this Union and sentiments President Lincoln and his generals realize that confiscated slaves if they destroyed plantations and economic basis upon which the South flourished then the piece would be much harder want to do that if the war could be won in a year even two years which strategy is also influenced by Lincoln's desire to retain the Loyalty of the border states there were a number of border states that were slave states that remained in the Union Missouri and Kentucky and even though Tennessee seceded large parts of Tennessee came under Union control very quickly so he wanted to make sure that the citizens of a loyal slave states property holders which included slaveholders would not feel threatened by Union Army to taking away their property so Lincoln made sure that there was no talk of emancipation believer in gradual emancipation maybe even compensated emancipation pay the slaveholders or their property Lincoln was under considerable pressure what is military commanders what do we do when we capture Southern space and on that stays in that space are Flame do we return the slaves to their masters do we let them go free  do we sign up these new Friedman or the runaway slaves as members of the loyal loyalty United States population and make them American soldiers  who sings this turn it had told themselves by the time for centuries was that essentially slavery work well for black understood that was in their best interest to being played Wyatt and plays demonstrate with their feet and their behavior so that talks so not only do they what is but they function as wise and and double agents for the Union forces dancing in the South to find the slave the very valuable some of them in the very personal a kind of way in terms of cleaning hampson talking food giving information on I'm to turn them away the themes too many common soldiers ridiculous stupid particularly when they find the same slave returned to their owners being put to work on the Confederate side of the line so that at the very lowest level in the Union Army we find that the soldiers the begin Sheltering us lays offering as m eye protection and moreover when they see that these people who have helped them are forcibly returned to their owners play the brutal beatings of Correction a sail away of from their families as it transforms of many Union Soldiers at the Practical abolitionist and whipped admit that we can destroy the southern will to fight by taking away their slaves and by this time Lincoln agreed and in fact Contraband came into our language at that time meeting at slaves who were freed by the Union Army Congress decided to pass an app called the confiscation act of 1861 in July putting that into law the next July 1862 date strengthened and extended that confiscation act declaring that all slaves who came into Union control Army control where free was under pressure from important abolitionists in the north people like Frederick had the president's ear and had the ear of some significant republicans in Congress who kept the pressure on Lincoln doing something about African Americans in the United States and the slave issue pretty glum for the union and Lincoln was seriously considering in that summer of 1862 issue a nun Emancipation Proclamation George McClellan did the army of the Potomac in the spring and summer of 1862 on the Peninsular campaign go was on to Richmond Robert E Lee became the commander Army of Northern Virginia throw him out of that state and back to Washington DC and another very great to see for the Union Army second Bull Run or Manassas Lee's army defeated the Union Army of fact Play In Summer kneeling before turning harder in Western theaters the bloodiest battle of the war fought on April 16th 7th and 18th pet battles won by Elizabeth Grant his first major victory of the war it was incredibly bloody bad note with the victory Northerners were horrified they were shot at the high levels of carnage  similar shockwaves Reverb Adamstown pushes the Confederate sword levels of conflict they had not anticipated desserts had to weigh what they were what they wanted the new nation to express in the midst of what became of Total War and how much they were like people in a in which they were threatened by the Sea Winds in the waves and had to lighten the load and kept casting off needed burdens and one of the things they can stop with state rights the very thing that underlay the secession movement the first place they can better two should really provided for a much more energetic national government than the United States the president served six years instead of 4 although the president could not be reelected that's a much longer time but there was a line item veto in the Confederate Constitution lower restrictions on what kinds of taxes and tariffs that Congress could pass but really the content Constitution provided a much more energetic national government than the one in Washington  deceleration of early Confederate victories lost in reality prolong veteran suffered significantly versus they lost at both ends of the Mississippi River call Aloft New Orleans they lost number of battles in the Midlands Lewis communion incursions on the Eastern Seaboard United States was winning the war Americans realize but Jefferson Davis didn't realize it and in the midst of this when Davis became permanent present 7 States in 1862 Davis and his inaugural address and this is the darkest hour of our struggle in order to reverse the track the David Administration make some significant changes changes it further overturned Confederate values the Davidson inspiration push through Congress suspension of the writ of habeas corpus I know any of the president to declare martial law in areas under sweat the Confederacy in the spring of 1862 passed the first was conscription act ever in American history year before United States resort to that the Davis Administration and acted confiscatory taxation over time they simply could not keep printing money and of course the Confederacy committed itself to an industrial War masses of people by the summer of 862 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