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1 WAR OF BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER The Civil War (1861-1865)

2 Jefferson Davis-South Pres. Jefferson Davis

3 **JEFFERSON DAVIS US SENATOR WHO BECAME PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (CSA)

4 Robert E. Lee-South

5 **ROBERT E. LEE-SOUTH CONFEDERATE GENERAL OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA LEE OPPOSED SECESSION BUT DID NOT BELIEVE UNION SHOULD BE HELD TOGETHER BY FORCE AFTER APPOMATTOX-LEE URGED SOUTHERNERS TO ACCEPT DEFEAT AND TO UNITE AGAIN

6 **STONEWALL JACKSON- Lee’s right hand man-South

7 President Abraham Lincoln- North

8 **ABRAHAM LINCOLN- NORTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INSISTED THAT THE UNION BE HELD TOGETHER BY FORCE IF NECESSARY

9 Ulysses Grant-North

10 **ULYSSES GRANT-NORTH UNION MILITARY COMMANDER WON VICTORIES OVER THE SOUTH AFTER SEVERAL OTHER UNION COMMANDERS HAD FAILED

11 **WILLIAM T. SHERMAN-NORTH

12 FREDERICK DOUGLASS- NORTH

13 **FREDERICK DOUGLASS- NORTH FORMER SLAVE WHO BECAME A PROMINENT ABOLITIONIST URGED LINCOLN TO RECRUIT FORMER SLAVES TO FIGHT IN THE UNION ARMY

14 **CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR Sectional disagreements and debated over tariffs, extension of slavery in the territories, and the nature of the Union(states’ rights) Northern abolitionists versus Southern defenders of slavery US Supreme Court decision Dred Scott case(ruled African Americans not citizens) Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Harriet Beecher Stowe Ineffective Presidents in the 1850’s Series of failed Compromises Lincoln’s call for federal troops in 1861 in the South

15 **SECESSION 1861-7 STATES SECEDED BECAUSE LINCOLN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT- FEARED LINCOLN WOULD ABOLISH SLAVERY SOUTH CAROLINA WAS THE FIRST. SOUTH CAROLINA WAS THE FIRST. THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (CSA) WAS FORMED *4 STATES WERE SLAVE STATES BUT STAYED IN UNION BORDER STATES- MISSOURI,KENTUCKY,MARYLAND, AND DELAWARE AND LATER WEST VIRGINIA

16 **North vs. South in 1861 PLAY VIDEO HERE

17 Overview of the North’s Civil War Strategy: “ Anaconda” Plan Overview of the North’s Civil War Strategy: “ Anaconda” Plan

18 **ANACONDA PLAN-NORTH’S STRATEGY UNION BLOCKADE SOUTHERN COASTS TO AFFECT SUPPLY ROUTES UNION FORCES GAIN CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND SPLIT CONFEDERACY IN TWO UNION ARMIES WOULD CAPTURE RICHMOND(CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY)

19 The “Anaconda” Plan

20 **SOUTH’S STRATEGY Mostly DEFENSIVE Army of Northern Virginia did try to move into Union territory, but was turned back at Gettysburg.

21 Rating the North & the South

22 Slave/Free States Population, 1861

23 Railroad Lines, 1860

24 Resources: North & the South

25 The Union & Confederacy in 1861

26 Soldiers’ Occupations: North/South Combined

27 The Confederate “White House” Richmond, VA The Confederate “White House” Richmond, VA

28 The Confederate Seal MOTTO  “With God As Our Vindicator”

29 Lincoln’s Generals Irwin McDowell Winfield Scott George McClellan, Again! McClellan George McClellan Ambrose Burnside Joseph Hooker George Meade Ulysses S. Grant

30 McClellan: I Can Do It All!

31 The Confederate Generals Jeb Stuart James Longstreet George Pickett “Stonewall” Jackson Nathan Bedford Forrest Robert E. Lee

32 First Skirmish of the Civil War Ft. Sumter,S.C.-April,12,1861

33 **FT. SUMTER,S.C. DETAILS THIS WAS THE SPARK-OPENING CONFRONTATION IN THE CIVIL WAR SOUTHERNERS BOMBARDED THE FORT AND TOOK CONTROL APRIL 12,1861

34 BULL RUN, VA-JULY 1861 FIRST MAJOR BATTLE STONEWALL JACKSON GOT HIS NAME HERE PEOPLE HAD PICNICS TO WATCH IMPORTANCE-UNION REALIZED WOULD NOT BE AN EASILY WON WAR

35 Bull Run bridge

36 The Battle of the Ironclads, March, 1862 The Monitor vs. the Merrimac

37 *MONITOR V MERRIMAC DETAILS *1862-MERRIMAC(CSS VIRGINIA) WAS A UNION SHIP THE CONFEDERACY COVERED IN IRON *THE UNION’S IRONCLAD –THE MONITOR *FOUGHT IN HAMPTON ROADS WATERS *CONSIDERED A DRAW THE MONITOR SUNK OFF COAST N.C THE SOUTH DESTROYED THE MERRIMAC

38 MONITOR IT HOUSED IT’S GUNS IN A REVOLVING TURRET. THE TURRET AND CANNON ARE AT THE MARINER’S MUSEUM IN NEWPORT NEWS,VA

39 Damage on the Deck of the Monitor

40 Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War” 26,000 casualties September 17, 1862

41 **DETAILS OF ANTIETAM,MD 1862- BLOODIEST SINGLE BATTLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY-26,000 DEAD. MORE THAN THE WAR OF 1812 AND MEXICAN WAR COMBINED CONSIDERED A DRAW –BUT THE SOUTH LOST A QUARTER OF ITS MEN AND RETREATED IMPORTANCE- SINGLE BLOODIEST BATTLE IN US HISTORY

42 Emancipation in 1863

43 The Emancipation Proclamation-

44 ** EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION JANUARY 1, 1863 FREED SLAVES IN THE “REBELLING STATES” ONLY APPLIED TO SOUTHERN CONFEDERATE STATES-NOT UNION OR BORDER STATES MADE THE DESTRUCTION OF SLAVERY A NORTHERN WAR AIM DISCOURAGED INTERFERENCE BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS ALLOWED ENLISTMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE UNION ARMY

45 *WEST VIRGINIA-1863 WESTERN COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA ANTI-SLAVERY SO THEY SECEDED AND FORMED WEST VIRGINIA

46 CHANCELLORVILLE,VA MAY 1863-STONEWALL JACKSON MISTAKENLY SHOT IN LEFT ARM BY CONFEDERATE GUARDS-HIS ARM AMPUTATED AND CAUGHT PNEUMONIA AND DIED LEE SAID “HE HAS LOST HIS LEFT ARM,BUT I HAVE LOST MY RIGHT” MAJOR LOSS TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CONFEDERACY

47 The Road to Gettysburg: 1863

48 **DETAILS OF GETTYSBURG,PA *1863-TURNING POINT OF WAR 3 DAY BLOODY BATTLE NORTH-23,000 KILLED OR WOUNDED SOUTH-28,000 KILLED OR WOUNDED +THE SOUTHERN ARMY WAS STOPPED HERE *IMPORTANCE-TURNING POINT OF WAR

49 Gettysburg Casualties

50 Gettysburg

51 UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS

52 *GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Lincoln described the war aim now as a struggle to preserve the nation- “SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION” “All men are created equal” Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” America is “ONE NATION” not a collection of sovereign states as the South believed. Southerners believed that states had freely joined the Union and could freely leave.

53 VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI- JULY1863 GRANT TOOK CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN THIS BATTLE THIS ALONG WITH GETTYSBURG WOULD BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY

54 Sherman’s “March to the Sea” through Georgia, 1864

55 *SHERMAN’S PLAN-1864 States “WAR IS HELL” then lays waste to Georgia and South Carolina. SCORCHED EARTH TOTAL WAR Totally destroyed Charleston, S.C. and Atlanta, GA. – the premier cities in the South

56 Surrender at Appomattox April 9, 1865

57 **DETAILS OF SURRENDER **APRIL 9, 1865- The last major Confederate Army surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse (VA) *Lincoln requested terms be generous: 1. 1. Grant paroled Lee’s officers 2. 2. Let soldiers keep personal possessions, horses and 3 days’ rations 3. 3. Officers permitted to keep side arms

58 *COMMON SOLDIERS HAND TO HAND COMBAT DIARIES AND LETTERS TELL THE STORY PERMANENT DISABILTIES SOUTH-HOMES, FARMLAND DESTROYED

59 African-American Recruiting Poster

60 **AFRICAN AMERICANS IN CIVIL WAR *EMANCIPATION ALLOWED FOR ENLISTMENT *BY WAR’S END 10% OF UNION ARMY SERVED IN SEGREGATED UNITS-EX. 54 TH INFANTRY-GLORY WHEN CAPTURED BY CONFEDERATES-KILLED NOT JAILED

61 The Famous 54 th Massachusetts

62 August Saint-Gaudens Memorial to Col. Robert Gould Shaw

63 WOMEN IN THE WAR- CLARA BARTON American Redcorss American Red Cross

64 **WOMEN’S ROLES MANAGED HOMES AND FAMILIES WITH SCARCE RESOURCES FACED POVERTY AND HUNGER BECAME FARMERS, NURSES, AND WORKED IN WAR INDUSTRIES

65 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT LiLittle Women

66 Inflation in the South

67 Casualties on Both Sides

68 Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars

69 Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)

70 The Assassin John Wilkes Booth

71 The Assassination

72 WANTED~~!!WANTED~~!!

73 Now He Belongs to the Ages!

74 The Execution

75 ANDREW JOHNSON- President after Lincoln’s Assassination


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