1. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.
Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, From His First Inaugural Address.

4. North vs. South in 1861
North
South
Advantages ?
Disadvantages

6. The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis
VP Alexander Stevens

7. Lincoln’s Team of Rivals

8. The “Anaconda” Plan

9. Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas)
Seven Days Battles

10. War in the East:

11. Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
23,000 casualties