The Civil War (1861-1865) Through Maps, Charts, Graphs & Pictures

Map of The Union & Confederacy in 1861 Doc 1: Map of The Union & Confederacy in 1861

Doc 2: Rating the North & the South

Doc 3: Railroad Lines, 1860

Doc 4: Resources: North & the South

Doc 5: Immigrants as a % of a State’s Population in 1860

Doc 6: Men Present for Duty in the Civil War

Doc 7: Slave/Free States Population, 1861

Doc 8: Soldiers’ Occupations: North / South Combined

Doc 9: The Leaders of the Union (Election of 1861) Pres. Abraham Lincoln VP Hannibal Hamlin

Doc 10: The Leaders of the Confederacy Pres. Jefferson Davis VP Alexander Stevens

Doc 11: The “Anaconda” Plan (Northern War Strategy)

Doc 12: Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford Forrest “Stonewall” Jackson Nathan Bedford Forrest George Pickett Jeb Stuart James Longstreet Robert E. Lee 7 of 8 military colleges in the U.S. were in the South- Great Military Leadership

George McClellan, Again! Doc 13: Union Generals Winfield Scott Joseph Hooker Ulysses S. Grant Irwin McDowell George McClellan George Meade Ambrose Burnside George McClellan, Again!

Doc 14: Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas) July, 1861

Doc 15: Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War” September 17, 1862 23,000 casualties

Doc 16: Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Now, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States… designate the following States and parts of States [are] in rebellion against the United States: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Doc 17: Emancipation in 1863

DOC 18: Recruitment of Black Union Soldiers in 1863 The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first military unit consisting of black soldiers to be raised in the North during the Civil War. Prior to 1863, no effort was made to recruit black troops as Union soldiers. The passage of the Emancipation Proclamation in December of 1862 provided the impetus for the use of free black men as soldiers and, at a time when state governors were responsible for the raising of regiments for federal service, Massachusetts was the first to respond with the formation of the Fifty-fourth Regiment.

Black Troops Freeing Slaves

Doc 19: Soldiers’ Occupations: North / South Combined

DOC 20: South initiates the Draft, 1862 The first general American military draft was enacted by the Confederate government on April 16, 1862, more than a year before the federal government did the same. The Confederacy took this step because it had to; its territory was being assailed on every front by overwhelming numbers, and the defending armies needed men to fill the ranks. The compulsory-service law was very unpopular in the South because it was viewed as a violation of the rights of individuals by the central government, one of the reasons the South went to war in the first place.

The North Initiates the Draft, 1863 DOC 21: The North Initiates the Draft, 1863

Doc 22: Conscription/Draft Conscription (The Draft): Forced enrollment in military service Rich men can buy their way out of military service with $300 fee. “A Rich man’s war and poor man’s fight.” This occurred both in the North and South.

Doc 23: Recruiting Irish Immigrants in NYC

Doc 24: NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

Doc 25: A “Pogrom” Against Blacks

DOC 26: Gettysburg and Vicksburg, 1863

Doc 27: Gettysburg Casualties

Lincoln begins work in 1863 on his Reconstruction Plan.

Doc 28: Inflation in the South

-William Tecumseh Sherman Doc 29: “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” -William Tecumseh Sherman March to the Sea. 1864

Doc 30: 1864 Election Pres. Lincoln (R) Andrew Johnson (VP) George McClellan (D)

Doc 31: Presidential Election Results 1864

Doc 32: Surrender at Appomattox April 9, 1865

Doc 33: Casualties on Both Sides

Doc 34: Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars

DOC 35: Lincoln Before and After the Civil War August, 1860 February, 1865

Doc 36: The Assassin John Wilkes Booth

Doc 37: Ford’s Theater, Washington DC, (April 14, 1865)

Doc 38: The Assassination