The Theaters of the Civil War

          The Civil War was divided into three sections, or "theaters"; they were the east, the west, and the naval theater. When a battle was fought one thing that was looked at was what theater it was in. In class we learned about battles in different theaters by doing a scavenger type activity. Each student researched a specific battle and wrote down where the battle took place, who won the battle, what theater it was in, and details about the battle on a shareable google document. Every student then put up a QR code, that sent you to the notes for the battle, in different places around the school and the class spent a couple days going around getting information for all battles researched. After this we came together and discussed trends and who won each theater on a padlet.

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          The results of each theater relate to the ultimate winner of the war, the north. In the west, from the beginning of the war, the union dominated. Using their overpowering numbers they were able to overwhelm the confederate armies and push farther and deeper into the south. Also with lack of basic resources like ammunition and food the confederates had they were unable to withstand the union attack. In the eastern theater it was pretty even for who won it. In the beginning the confederacy controlled the eastern theater. With their tactic of just waiting and defending, their job was to just make sure that the union didn't advance of have a decisive win, and if this happened they considered it a win. But, as the war progressed the ammunition and other supplies was dwindling for the confederates and they did not have enough manufacturing to make more quick enough, so the union began to take control of the eastern theater by the end of the war. For the naval theater the clear winner was the union. Before the war even began, the union had a strong and established naval army which helped them succeed throughout the war. Looking at the success of the union in all three theaters it makes a lot of sense that they were the eventual victors of the war.

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            Throughout the war some commonalities were very apparent. For the union in all battles that they over numbered the confederacy in, they usually ended up being the victor. Another commonality was in most of the battles the confederates ran out of either food, ammunition, or both. For the confederates most of their wins came when the union wasn't expecting an attack. Wether it was an ambush or just the union wasn't expecting the confederates few wins came usually when the union wasn't prepared. These were the commonalities that were present during the Civil War.