Union VS Confederacy

Union VS Confederacy

Military strategies

Open Ended

What strategies do you use to win a battle or game?

The Ironclads of the Confederacy

Ironclad Warships

• The ironclad was a new kind of warship first used in the Civil War.

• They were protected with an outer armor made of iron. They were much more difficult to sink with cannonballs.

• The Confederates wanted to nullify the Union’s advantage of naval power with the creation of Ironclad ships.

Confederacy Long term plan

Their strategy was to take advantage of their compact geography, with internal lines of communication, their military heritage and their greater enthusiasm for their cause to wear down the Union will to wage war.

They hoped that their will power would outlast the Union until the Union grew tired and surrendered.

Poll

Although we know the Confederacy lost the war, do you think the Ironclad ships impacted our future military in a positive way?

• Yes

• No

Ironclads Impact

Realizing how tremendously vulnerable wooden ships were to destruction by long range, explosive cannon fire, naval architects began to dramatically improve ships' defenses by plating them with iron or steel.

Goodbye to wooden naval ships!

Unions Great Anaconda Plan

Anaconda Plan

• Anaconda plan, military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War.

• The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

• All of these plans happened at the same time! There was no escape!

Open Ended

Why do you think the anaconda plan worked so well?

Unions War Strategy

Like how an Anaconda squeezes and suffocates its prey, the Anaconda plans purpose was to "suffocate" the Confederacy. Cutting off their supplies, the Confederacy would eventually have to surrender in order to survive.