1. CIVIL WAR

2. The North and the “ANACONDA PLAN”
Developed by General Winfield Scott (Hero of the Mexican War)
Choke the Confederacy -Used blockades to keep the South from exporting cotton or importing supplies
Used troops and gunboats to gain control of the Mississippi River, thus cutting the Confederacy in half
Capture Richmond Virginia
Lincoln ordered a naval blockade of seceded states

3. The South and the “WAR OF ATTRITION”
Prepare and wait
Wear them down slowly
Stopped producing cotton so France and Britain would jump in on the side of the South
Plan did not work – France and Britain got cotton from Egypt

4. Commanders
Ulysses S. Grant, a West Point graduate, appointed General by Lincoln
William Sherman
Robert E. Lee commanded Confederate Army
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
James Longstreet
John B. Hood

5. 1st Battle, Bull Run / Manassas (July, 1861)
First Battle of Bull Run (July, 1861)
Union army unprepared and poorly organized
Confederate victory

6. Jackson emerges as a stern and strong leader.
Union disgracefully falls back.
Irwin McDowell fired (USA)
Observers shocked at what they see.

7. Shiloh (April, 1862) Union victory
North captured all but 2 ports on the Mississippi
Port Hudson
Vicksburg

8. What we learn about this war…
Must entrench
Must form picket lines
This will be a long and bloody war.

9. Antietam (Sept. 1862) Union victory
Bloodiest single day: 26,000 casualties
Lincoln need victory to issue Emancipation.

10. Chancellorsville (April 1863)
Confederate victory
Stonewall Jackson shot in the arm

12. Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
Lee sought to defeat Union on Northern soil
Battle lasted three days
Union victory
TURNING POINT OF THE WAR
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln explained meaning of Civil War
Redefined meaning of the United States
Promised a “new birth” of freedom

16. Vicksburg (April-July, 1863)
Grant attacked
Promoted a SEIGE
Surround enemy
Starve enemy until they surrender
Union victory

19. Atlanta (July-December, 1864)
“March to the Sea” campaign
Sherman laid siege to Atlanta
When the Confederates retreated, Sherman burned Atlanta
Sherman continued to Savannah, destroying
Bridges
Factories
Railroads
Livestock
Continued destruction into South Carolina

22. Appomattox (April, 1865) Union victory
Lee surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox courthouse

23. Other Issues Technology… weapons made more deadly and accurate
Andersonville
Notorious prison camp in Georgia
Built for 10,000 men
Held 35,000 men on 26 acres
100+ men died each day

25. The Emancipation Proclamation (January, 1863)
Lincoln resisted making the abolition of slaves a Union goal
He opposed slavery, but did not think he had the legal authority to end it
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery and make southerners have to work rather than fight
The Emancipation Proclamation officially made the abolition of slavery a Union goal (No longer interested in just preserving Union)

26. 13th Amendment passed (December, 1865)
Passed by Lincoln and Congress
Ended Slavery