Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Civil War ( ) Through Maps, Charts, Graphs & Pictures
Ch11/s1-North vs. South in 1861 NorthSouth Advantages?? Disadvantages??
Advantages of North & the South
Slave/Free States Population, 1861
Railroad Lines, 1860
Resources: North & the South
The Union & Confederacy in 1861
Union More Manpower than South
Soldiers’ Occupations: North/South Combined
Immigrants as a % of a State’s Population in 1860
Leaders of the Confederacy Pres. Jefferson Davis VP Alexander Stevens
The Confederate “White House
The Confederate Seal MOTTO “With God As Our Vindicator”
A Northern View of Jeff Davis
North’s Civil War Strategy “Anacond a” Plan North’s Civil War Strategy “Anacond a” Plan
The “Anaconda” Plan
Anaconda Plan Northern plan to defeat the south Three Parts- Block ports/move down Mississippi split confederate in two/capture Richmond Suffocate Enemy
Union Generals Irwin McDowell Winfield Scott George McClellan, Again! McClellan George McClellan Ambrose Burnside Joseph Hooker George Meade Ulysses S. Grant
McClellan: I Can Do It All!
Confederate Generals Jeb Stuart James Longstreet George Pickett “Stonewall” Jackson Nathan Bedford Forrest Robert E. Lee
Start of Civil War Lincoln Elected South Succeeds from the union Confederate soldiers-begin taking over federal building in the south Fort Sumter -Union fort in Charleston Confederates-Demanded Lincoln to surrender the fort
Fort Sumter Lincoln decides not to fire on fort Sumter Did not want to abandon fort Sent navy to deliver food Confederate-see ships coming Davis –had to decide what to do?- Fires on fort Sumter-WAR BEGINS
NEWS OF FORT SUMTER United the North Men Volunteered to fight Virginia-Seceded from Union Western part of Virginia-antislavery- succeeded from Virginia & admitted to Union as western Virginia Four-Slave states-remained in Union- Maryland/Delaware/Kentucky/Missouri
Battle of Bull Run Occurred three months after Fort Sumter Fought-union capital Victory for the south-Stonewall Jackson
1 st -Battle Battle of Bull Run July, 1861
NEW WEAPONS IRON CLAD SHIPS NORTH-MONITORSOUTH-MERRIMACKDRAW RIFLE-MINIE BALLS Grenades/Land mines
The Battle of the Ironclads, March, 1862 The Monitor vs. the Merrimac
Damage on the Deck of the Monitor
Buy Your Way Out of Military Service
War in the East:
War to Capture the Capital WAR IN THE EAST Capture Richmond McClellan v Lee Found copy of Lee’s plans Clash at Antietam Casualties-26,000-south nearly defeated- ended Lincoln Fires McClellan
Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War” 23,000 casualties September 17, 1862
Ch11-S2/ Emancipation in 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Southern View of Emancipation
African-American Recruiting Poster
The Famous 54 th Massachusetts
August Saint-Gaudens Memorial to Col. Robert Gould Shaw
African-Americans in Civil War Battles
Black Troops Freeing Slaves
Extensive Legislation Passed Without the South in Congress 1861 – Morrill Tariff Act 1862 – Homestead Act 1862 – Legal Tender Act 1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 – Emancipation Proclamation (1/1/1863) 1863 – Pacific Railway Act 1863 – National Bank Act 1861 – Morrill Tariff Act 1862 – Homestead Act 1862 – Legal Tender Act 1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 – Emancipation Proclamation (1/1/1863) 1863 – Pacific Railway Act 1863 – National Bank Act
The War in the West, 1863: Vicksburg Vicksburg
The Road to Gettysburg: 1863
Gettysburg Casualties
The North Initiates the Draft, 1863
Recruiting Irish Immigrants in NYC
Recruiting Blacks in NYC
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
A “Pogrom” Against Blacks
Inflation in the South
The Progress of War:
Sherman’ s “March to the Sea” through Georgia, 1864
1864 Election Pres. Lincoln (R) George McClellan (D)
The Peace Movement: Copperheads Clement Vallandigham
1864 Copperhead Campaign Poster
Cartoon Lampoons Democratic Copperheads in 1864
Presidenti al Election Results: 1864
The Final Virginia Campaign:
Surrender at Appomattox April 9, 1865
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars
Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)
The Assassin John Wilkes Booth
The Assassination
WANTED~~!!WANTED~~!!
Now He Belongs to the Ages!
The Execution