1. Civil War

2. Shots Fired -war begins at Fort Sumter, S.C., 1861
-Bull Run (Manassas)
-July 1861
-Southern victory : General “Stonewall” Jackson
-did not pursue the retreating Union army
- Lincoln called for Gen. McClellan to lead Union
-citizens watched the battle for entertainment in best clothes… disaster

4. Shiloh (Small Tenn Church)
-April 1862
-costly victory for Ulysses S. Grant
Lost a lot of men
- order reinforcements, counterattack next day, Confed. army retreats
-1. demonstrated the cost of victory would be great
-2. Grant needed to send out scouts, dig trenches, build fortifications
- Anaconda plan was working!

6. Antietam -Sept. 17th 1862 -bloodiest single day of the war
-26,000 dead, more than Mx-Am War and war of 1812 combined
- ROBERT E. LEE
- Moves CONFED troops towards DC
- Gen. McClellan: sends spy, finds Lee’s army’s orders wrapped around bunch of cigars
- McClellan makes his move
- South eventually retreats,
- McClellan does not follow
-Union victory for McClellan
- Nov. 7th, Lincoln fires McClellan, “The Slows”

9. Confederate Victories
-Confederates greatly outnumbered but Lee still wins
- “Grant the Butcher”
-Dec. 1862
-Fredericksburg
Union lost- 12,000
Confed lost- 5,000 (But could not replace them)
-May 1863
-Chancellorsville
“Lee’s perfect battle”
- Outmaneuvered the North, w/a smaller army
-Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is killed “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right”- Lee

11. Gettysburg =Turning point of the war
-July 1863 (3 day battle)
-Lee invades North -Pushing into PA (Needed a confed Victory on Union Soil)
-Little Round Top
-Cemetery Ridge: Higher Ground, Lee knew he had to get control of
2nd Day: Lee (Confeds) Surrender -

13. Gettysburg 3rd Day: -Pickett’s Charge
*Lee optimistic 1 more day of attack to break Union Defenses.
* 2 hour fight
- Lee orders Pickett and his men to attack the center of Union lines. (Pickett’s Charge) = HUGE failure and devastation
- Lee surrenders once again, badly beaten.
- 30 % casualties
Union lost: 23,000
Confeds lost: 28,000

16. -Grant surrounds city on the Mississippi
Vicksburg Miss., only place out of 2, preventing Union control of MISS River
-Nov. 1862
-Grant surrounds city on the Mississippi
-try to split the south
Barricades and bombs city for months
Supplies low: people resort to eating dogs
July 4, Vicksburg fell (along with Hudson, LA) DIVIDING THE CONFED INTO 2!

18. South is Split -July 1863 -Grant captures Vicksburg after long seige
-Grant is called to command Union armies

19. Sherman’s March -1864 - Sherman’s “March to the Sea”:
-Total War =Fight Civilian life too
-*“War is Hell”
why? - Produced weapons, transported goods, & the strength of the people’s will kept the war going.
-PLAN: Grant would immobilize Lee’s army in VA, move S
Sherman would raid GA
*remember- the N could afford more casualties

20. Sherman’s March
-burning of Atlanta, he burned most of Atlanta: buildings, crops, livestock, people
-destroy the will to fight, march to the coast
With the help of Grant, Sherman burns most of GA, SC and NC

25. Grant in Pursuit -1864 -Lee in retreat
-Grant attacks repeatedly at great loss of life
-Lincoln wants speedy end to war

26. War’s End
-April 1865
*clear the Confederacy is drawing near to the end
-Grant surrounds Lee outside Richmond
-surrender at Appomattox Court House in VA.
- At Lincoln’s request the terms were very generous.
*Sent home with 3 days, rations, personal possessions and weapons.