The Civil War

Election of 1860

Fort Sumter

Antietam Robert E. Lee tried to take a Northern city His battle plans were discovered and the North won Bloodiest single day battle in the civil war Inspired the Emancipation Proclamation- decree to end slavery

Gettysburg This is Robert E. Lee’s last attempt to take a Northern city The Southern forces were decimated in Pickett’s Charge- 3x3 for a mile charged at the Northern forces. Only a few made it across Gettysburg Address- encouraged the North to continue the fight Turning point in the war. No more southern victories

http://showcase. netins. net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Vicksburg General Grant surrounded the city of Vicksburg in Mississippi in a siege After several months Vicksburg finally surrendered This cut the Confederacy in Half

Battle of Atlanta General Sherman of the North laid siege on Atlanta and put the Confederate soldiers on the run South Sherman burned every town along the way from Atlanta to Savannah- Sherman’s March to the Sea This took the breath out of the South