1. The Civil War

2. At the Start Both sides thought it would be a quick war
Bull Run, July 1861
Union expected overwhelming victory
Picnickers
Turned into a disorganized rout

3. Comparisons Industrial background
Union Strengths
Confederacy strengths
Industrial background
Greater population (22 million to 9 million)
Immigration
Military tradition of the south
Defensive warfare
Superior generalship

4. Great Southern Commanders

5. Incompetent Union Officers

6. War at Sea Union blockade of Confederate Ports “Anaconda Plan”
Confederate “blockade runners”
Control of the Mississippi River
Ironclads

7. Anaconda Plan

8. Anaconda Plan (2)

9. War in the West
Ulysses S. Grant, in charge of the Army of the Tennessee, marches down the Mississippi River
Wins victories at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
Ably assisted by William T. Sherman

10. Tale of Two Wars
In the West
In the East
The Union Army wins many victories, despite moderate losses, and pushes south, eventually splitting the Confederacy in two along the Mississippi River
The Union cannot win a battle to save their lives, despite numerical superiority and great advantages in equipment

11. Antietam Lee invades the North in summer of 1862
Wins a lot of battles, lots of dead/captured Union soldiers
Invasion halted at Antietam Creek on September 17th, 1862
Bloodiest single day in American history

12. Gettysburg Lee launches another invasion in 1863
Two years into the war, many of his men don’t have shoes
Shoe factory in Gettysburg, PA
Accidental battleground
Turning point in War

13. Gettysburg Address

14. Election of 1864
By 1864, it’s obvious the Union is going to win the war; it’s just a matter of time
George B. McClellan (twice-failed general) runs against Lincoln
Sen. Andrew Johnson (D-TN) is Lincoln’s Vice President

15. Map of Election of 1864

16. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

17. Sherman’s March to the Sea
By 1864, Georgia was the lone remaining industrialized area in the South
William T. Sherman captured Atlanta and then “marched to the sea” to Savannah, sowing a wide swath of destruction

18. African-American Soldiers

19. End of the War
Grant chases Lee’s tattered Army across Virginia through 1864 into 1865
Lee finally surrenders at Appomattox Court House on April 9th, 1865
After 630,000 casualties, war is over

20. And then…
On April 14th, 1865, Lincoln attends a play at Ford’s Theater
John Wilkes Booth, Southern sympathizer and failed actor, shoots him in the head and flees
“Now he belongs to the ages” –Stanton