1. The Civil War ID’s: Matthew Brady Battle of Bull Run
Emancipation Proclamation
Matthew Brady

3. Northern Strategies 3 part plan Navy Blockade of Southern ports
Use the Mississippi to cut the Confederacy in two parts
Capture the Confederate capital in Richmond, Virginia

4. North’s Strengths More people More factories Greater food production
More extensive railroad system

5. Southern Strategies Mostly defensive
Attrition: wear out the other side by small scale actions
Cut off long supply lines
Outlast!

6. Confederacy’s Strengths
King Cotton
Help from Europe…
First-rate generals!!
Highly motivated soldiers!!!

7. Battle of Bull Run

8. “Nightmarish Retreat”

9. Painting’s of War

10. Photo’s of War

11. Painting’s of War

12. Photo’s of War
Matthew Brady

13. Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln disliked slavery, BUT…
Felt gov’t couldn’t abolish it in existing slave states.
Used constitutional war powers
Confederacy used slave labor to build fortifications and grow food
Lincoln could seize “enemy resources”
Emancipation = weapon of war

14. Did not free slaves immediately b/c applied to areas behind Conf. lines
Outside of Union control
Gave the war a moral purpose
Ensured compromise no longer possible

15. The Battle of Antietam Bloodiest Battle in US History 26,000 killed
Union General McClellan removed from command after not pursuing Confederates

16. Battle of Gettysburg Union Victory-Held off Lee’s attacks
Union losses: 23,000
Confederate losses: 28,000
The Gettysburg Address

17. The End of the War… Key defeats of S. at Vicksburg (Mississippi River)
Low on men, supplies and morale
Ulysses S. Grant=Union Army General, March 1864
Sherman commander of Mississippi division

18. Sherman’s March = total war
Marched S.E. from GA to the sea
Burned almost everything in its path
Livestock, homes, railroads, bridges, etc
Lincoln reelected in 1864

19. 13th Amendment
Emancipation Proc freed only slaves behind Confederate lines
Slavery still in border states
Constitutional amendment only solution
13th Amendment – ratified, 1865
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”

20. Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

21. The Nation is Changed… Physical Effects Political Changes
360,000 Union soldiers dead
260,000 Confederate soldiers dead
Land destruction
Political Changes
Increased federal gov’t power / authority

22. Technological Changes
Economic Changes
Northern economy boomed during war
Southern economy devastated
Technological Changes
First “modern war”