1. Confederate encampment at Corinth

4. Battle of Shiloh
Johnston attacks grant on April 6 beginning the Battle of Shiloh. Johnston is killed during the battle.
Gen. P.G. T. Beauregard takes command of southern forces. South advances on Day 1, but on Day 2 reinforced Union forces cause a Confederate retreat back to Corinth.
Shiloh was the bloodiest battle of the war to that point.
Corinth & Memphis were later abandoned by the Confederates.

5. Battle of Shiloh

6. Western Campaign

7. Battle of Shiloh

8. Battle for Vicksburg
Vicksburg was vital. It sat within a great curve in the MS River. The city was well fortified and sat atop high bluffs.
Vicksburg was a key supply point for the Confederacy.
Union tried to dig a canal on the LA side of the river to avoid Vicksburg. This failed.
Dec Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman begins a direct attack against Vicksburg from the North. Attack Fails

9. Vicksburg 1863

10. Battle for Vicksburg (Cont.)
Grant tries to dig a canal to bypass Vicksburg, but this fails due to Confederate Artillery fire.
Grant moves his forces south of Vicksburg through LA.
Grant attacked & captured Jackson, MS in May 1863 & then led a direct attack on Vicksburg.
Vicksburg was surrounded, but numerous attacks failed
Grant laid siege to Vicksburg for 6 weeks
Vicksburg fell July 4, 1863 (same day as Gettysburg victory)

11. Vicksburg, MS

12. Vicksburg Map

13. Union blockade at Vicksburg

14. Union soldiers at Vicksburg

15. Vicksburg National Cemetery

16. After Vicksburg Grant named Commander of all Union Forces
General William T. Sherman commands Union troops in the West
Sherman captured Meridian, MS in Feb (RR Depot)
Sherman moved on to Chattanooga
Sherman kept MS Generals Nathan Bedford Forrest and Stephen Lee off of his supply lines by constantly raiding North & East MS
Late 1864 Sherman makes his famous “March to the Sea” (from Atlanta to Savannah, GA)

17. Battle of Chattanooga & Chickamagua

19. Atlanta
Gen. William
Tecumseh Sherman

20. Battle Map

21. Fort Massachusetts (Ship Island)

22. War Ends March 1865 Richmond, VA falls to the Union.
April 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, VA
MS & AL troops surrendered on May 4, 1865 at Citronelle, AL
Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10, 1865 in Irwinville, GA

23. Lee Surrender

24. Mclean House

25. Washington D.C. after the War

26. MS Numbers 80,000 Mississippians fought for the Confederacy
About 500 Mississippians fought for the Union Army
17,000 MS slaves or freedmen fought for the Union Army
MS had about 27,000 dead at the end of the Civil War.

27. 9th Mississippi Infantry

28. 9th MS Infantry at Ft Pickens, Pensacola

29. Private James Madison Moore, Company A, 14th Regiment, Mississippi Consolidated Infantry

32. MS’s Homefront Those at home did what they could
Men joined the service
Women made uniforms or were nurses
Everyone supported the state or opposed in silence
MS tried to have normal politics but it was impossible.
Money became worthless in the south.
People did not have
Candle wax, salt, coffee & tea (corn, okra, sweet potatoes used instead),
Slave Revolts were feared
Union Soldiers took what they wanted and in many cases destroyed everything else.

33. Hardtack

34. End of Slavery
During war many southern blacks fled to Union army camps.
Some stayed on the Plantations
Blacks joined Union army and mainly performed labor roles.
By end of war blacks were actively fighting for the Union
Blacks were paid less and usually given menial tasks.
1862 Emancipation Proclamation issued. Freed slaves in the seceding states.
Dec th Amendment abolished slavery

35. Slaves

36. Slaves

37. Slaves

38. Emancipation Proclamation

39. 13th Amendment (from Harper’s Weekly)
SCENE IN THE HOUSE ON THE PASSAGE OF THE PROPOSITION TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION, JANUARY 31, 1865.