1. Fighting the Civil War

2. Shots Fired -war begins at Fort Sumter, S.C., 1861 - First battle of Bull Run -July 1861 -Southern victory -did not pursue the retreating Union army -citizens watched the battle

3. Shiloh -April 1862 -costly victory for Grant -demonstrated the cost of victory would be great

4. Antietam -Sept. 1862 -bloodiest single day of the war 16,000 dead in one day -Union victory for McClellan

5. Vicksburg -Nov. 1862 -Grant surrounds city on the Mississippi -try to split the south

6. Confederate Victories -Confederates greatly outnumbered but Lee still wins -Dec. 1862 -Fredericksburg -May 1863 -Chancellorsville -Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is killed

7. Gettysburg -July 1863 -Lee invades North -Little Round Top -Cemetery Ridge -Pickett’s Charge -turning point of the war as Lee is defeated -Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln several months later

8. Gettysburg -July 1863 -Lee invades North -Little Round Top -Cemetery Ridge -Pickett’s Charge -turning point of the war as Lee is defeated -Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln several months later

9. South is Split -July 1863 -Grant captures Vicksburg after long seige -Grant is called to command Union armies

10. Sherman’s March -1864 -”March to the Sea”: -Total War “War is Hell” -burning of Atlanta -destroy the will to fight

11. Grant in Pursuit -1864 -Lee in retreat -Grant attacks repeatedly at great loss of life -Lincoln wants speedy end to war

12. War’s End -April 1865 -Grant surrounds Lee outside Richmond -surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

13. Costs of War -deaths 360,000 Union 260,000 Conf. -1/2 million wounded -about 20 billion $ 5 times the amount spent in 80 years Political Changes -Power of the Federal Gov’t is supreme -extension of federal powers -income taxes first used -citizens drafted into service -civil liberties suppressed

14. The Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN (April 12, 1864)

15. Nathan Bedford Forrest (Captured Fort Pillow)  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.

16. Confederate Prison Camp at Point Lookout, MD  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had almost 50,000 at one time.  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had almost 50,000 at one time.

17. Point Lookout Memorial of 4,000 Dead Rebel Prisoners

18. Union Prison Camp at Andersonville, GA

19. Original Andersonville Plan  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had over 32,000 at one time.  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had over 32,000 at one time.

20. Distributing “Rations”

21. Union “Survivors”

22. Union Prisoner’s Record at Andersonville

23. Burying Dead Union POWs

24. Andersonville Cemetary

25. Economic Changes -growth of war related industries -Northern industry grew stronger -southern economy is destroyed -must be rebuilt

26. Lives Change -13 th Amendment bans slavery -soldiers return to their homes -urban population grows -many move west -many families destroyed by deaths of soldiers

27. Lincoln’s Assassination -Lincoln’s Plan forgiving peace to restore the Union -At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end

28. Lincoln’s Assassination -Lincoln’s Plan forgiving peace to restore the Union -At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end -John Wilkes Booth -First assassination of a President

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