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WHAT DID THEY FIGHT OVER?
WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE (1861-1865)

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NORTHERN VICTIMS	POW VICTIMS	SOUTHERN VICTIMS
Political prisoners were held at Fort McHenry which became known as the Baltimore Bastille Lincoln ordered the arrest of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney after Taney issued an opinion that Lincoln's actions were illegal. The arrest warrant was never carried out. Justice Taney on Lincoln�s suspension of habeas corpus	PRISONS Andersonville is the most famous; held 45,000 union prisoners of which 13,000 died. Starvation was the main cause of death and occurred while union general Sherman was in the same state destroying all crops and livestock possible. Camp Douglas held 27,000 prisoners and is relatively unknown. Willis Beard, my relative, was one of 6000 confederate soldiers who died there. The confederate dead from Camp Douglas were buried at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago IL.	Excerpt from chapter IX of Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant "Up to the battle of Shiloh, I as well as thousands of other citizens, believed that the rebellion against the Government would collapse suddenly and soon, if a decisive victory could be gained over any of its armies. Donelson and Henry were such victories. An army of more than 21,000 men was captured or destroyed. Bowling Green, Columbus, and Hickman, Kentucky, fell in consequence, and Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee, the last two with an immense amount of stores, also fell into our hands. The tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, from their mouths to the head of their navigation, were secured. But when Confederate armies were collected which not only attempted to hold a line farther south, from Memphis to Chattanooga, Knoxville and on to the Atlantic, but assumed the offensive and made such a gallant effort to regain what had been lost, then, indeed I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest. Up to that time it had been the policy of our army, certainly of that portion commanded by me, to protect the property of the citizens whose territory was invaded, without regard to their sentiments, whether Union or Secession. After this however, I regarded it as humane to both sides to protect the persons of those found at their homes but to consume everything that could be used to support or supply armies. Protection was still continued over such supplies as were within lines held by us and which we expected to continue to hold; but such supplies within the reach of Confederate armies I regarded as much contraband as arms or ordnance stores. Their destruction was accomplished without bloodshed and tended to the same result as the destruction of armies. I continued this policy to the close of the war."

NORTHERN VICTIMS

POW VICTIMS

SOUTHERN VICTIMS

Political prisoners were held at Fort McHenry which became known as the Baltimore Bastille

Lincoln ordered the arrest of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney after Taney issued an opinion that Lincoln's actions were illegal. The arrest warrant was never carried out.

Justice Taney on Lincoln�s suspension of habeas corpus

PRISONS Andersonville is the most famous; held 45,000 union prisoners of which 13,000 died. Starvation was the main cause of death and occurred while union general Sherman was in the same state destroying all crops and livestock possible. Camp Douglas held 27,000 prisoners and is relatively unknown. Willis Beard, my relative, was one of 6000 confederate soldiers who died there. The confederate dead from Camp Douglas were buried at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago IL.

Excerpt from chapter IX of Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
"Up to the battle of Shiloh, I as well as thousands of other citizens, believed that the rebellion against the Government would collapse suddenly and soon, if a decisive victory could be gained over any of its armies. Donelson and Henry were such victories. An army of more than 21,000 men was captured or destroyed. Bowling Green, Columbus, and Hickman, Kentucky, fell in consequence, and Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee, the last two with an immense amount of stores, also fell into our hands. The tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, from their mouths to the head of their navigation, were secured. But when Confederate armies were collected which not only attempted to hold a line farther south, from Memphis to Chattanooga, Knoxville and on to the Atlantic, but assumed the offensive and made such a gallant effort to regain what had been lost, then, indeed I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest. Up to that time it had been the policy of our army, certainly of that portion commanded by me, to protect the property of the citizens whose territory was invaded, without regard to their sentiments, whether Union or Secession. After this however, I regarded it as humane to both sides to protect the persons of those found at their homes but to consume everything that could be used to support or supply armies. Protection was still continued over such supplies as were within lines held by us and which we expected to continue to hold; but such supplies within the reach of Confederate armies I regarded as much contraband as arms or ordnance stores. Their destruction was accomplished without bloodshed and tended to the same result as the destruction of armies. I continued this policy to the close of the war."

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WHAT DID THEY FIGHT OVER? WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE (1861-1865)

WHAT DID THEY FIGHT OVER?
WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE (1861-1865)