1. Mr. Buttell Honors AMH CBHS
The Civil War ( )
Mr. Buttell Honors AMH CBHS

2. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

3. Overview of the North’s Civil War Strategy:
“Anaconda” Plan

4. Anaconda Plan Three part 1862 Union war strategy to defeat the South:
Blockade Southern ports.
Cut the Mississippi River in half.
Capture Richmond.

5. George McClellan, Again!
Lincoln’s Generals
Winfield Scott
Joseph Hooker
Ulysses S. Grant
Irwin McDowell
George McClellan
George Meade
Ambrose Burnside
George McClellan, Again!

6. The Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford Forrest
“Stonewall” Jackson
Nathan Bedford Forrest
George Pickett
Jeb Stuart
James Longstreet
Robert E. Lee

7. War in the East:

8. Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
26,000 casualties

9. Emancipation in 1863

10. Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
Lincoln freed all slaves in states that had seceded. Lincoln had no power to enforce the law.

11. African-American Recruiting Poster

12. The Famous 54th Massachusetts

13. The North Initiates the Draft, 1863

14. Recruiting Irish Immigrants in NYC

15. NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

16. NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

17. Buy Your Way Out of Military Service

18. Women Contribute to the War
3,000 women served as Union nurses
Clara Barton (founded the American Red Cross after the war)
Southern women also volunteered as nurses
Sally Tompkins (southern) later commissioned as a captain.

19. The War in the West, 1863:
Vicksburg

20. The Road to Gettysburg: 1863

21. Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
90,000 soldiers under Meade vs. 76,000 under Lee, lasted three days and the North won. Considered a turning point of the Civil War.

22. The Progress of War:

23. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” through Georgia, 1864

24. 1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)

25. Presidential Election Results: 1864

26. The Final Virginia Campaign: 1864-1865 “TOTAL WAR”

27. Surrender at Appomattox April 9, 1865

28. Casualties on Both Sides

29. Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars

30. 13th Amendment Ratified in December, 1865.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

31. Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)

32. The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth

33. The Assassination

34. The Execution