1. Chancellorsville May 1-4, 1863

2. Lee’s most brilliant victory (dividing his army)
Lee’s costliest victory-loss of Jackson

3. Vicksburg May-June 1863

5. Anaconda Plan at its best
Approx. 1 month, 2800 shells/day
Union gains control of the Miss. River

6. Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863

10. Lee tries offensive move again
Bloodiest battle: over 50,000 casualties: approx. 28,000 C, 25,000 U
Over 4000 horses dead
Turning point of the war
South never tries the offensive move again

11. Gettysburg Address

13. March to the Sea Sept. 2-Dec. 1864

15. Deliberate destruction-”total war”
Destroy all in his path-”make GA. howl”
Destroy rail lines, fields, morale
Helped break the will of the Confederates to fight on

16. Appomattox April 9, 1865

18. Lee surrenders to Grant “Gentlemen’s Agreement”
Soldiers not punished as long as they obey the laws
Soldiers are fed
Soldiers may take their horses and mules home
Marks the end of the war

19. Lincoln Assassinated April 14, 1865
Carried out 4/14/65 (surrender 4/9/65)
Larger conspiracy-plot to kill 3 (Lincoln, VP Andrew Johnson and Sec. of St. Seward)
Johnson-his assassin got drunk and cold feet
Seward-stab wounds, survived
Lincoln-assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Booth-confederate zealot, actor, fired derringer to back of Lincoln’s head as he watched “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater
“sic semper tyrannis”-motto of VA.
Lincoln died 9 hrs later; Booth pursued in to VA. And killed in a burning barn

22. Samuel Mudd-involved??? (physician who set Booth’s leg) involvement questioned…”your name is Mudd”
Mudd-sentenced to life, later pardoned by Johnson
Mary Surratt-executed, 1st woman executed by federal govt.
4 hung-2 die immediately, 2 others, including Surratt slowly strangle
Irony: Lincoln created the Secret Service earlier that day to suppress counterfeit money…commissioned in July

24. Lincoln’s Legacy
Emancipation Proclamation-John C. Fremont issues an EP in MO. Aug. 1861: Lincoln vetoes it then issues his own Sept (also recall 1st inaugural)
Suspension of Habeas Corpus- when a man arrested sues, Chief Justice Taney rules Lincoln cannot do this…Lincoln ignores the ruling
Gettysburg Address
Assassination-MARTYRDOM?

25. Casualties of War Union Confederacy Total Service members 2,213,363
1,050,000
Battle Deaths
140,414
74,542
Other deaths in service-disease, prison, accidents
224,097
592,972
Disease: 197,388
Prison: 30,192
Accidents: 24,881
Disease: 140,000
Wounded
281,881
Unknown

26. Medical Conditions
Poor sanitation, primitive medical practices, contaminated water supplies, amputations often infected

27. Medical Conditions

28. Prisons Andersonville, GA.
Designed to hold 10,000; pop. Swelled to over 32,000
Deteriorating resources and overcrowding-health and nutritional conditions
12,912 deaths by war’s end
Apart from the Lincoln conspirators, Conf. Henry Wirz who commanded Andersonville is the only other one executed for actions in the Civil War
Federal prisons notorious for the same: Alton, IL. and Elmira, NY

30. 54th Massachusetts Regiment
1st African-American regiment-for the Union
Commissioned in 1863 after the Eman. Proc.
Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Initially mistreated, gained respect over time
Movie “Glory”