1. Civil War
Chapter 11

2. Anaconda Plan 3 Part Union (Northern) Strategy to win
Blockade Southern Ports
Split the Confederacy in two at Mississippi
Capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, VA

3. Fort Sumter: First shots of the Civil War fired at Charleston Harbor

4. South’s Plan

5. Bull Run First battle of the war 25 miles outside Washington, DC.
Won by Confederate (SOUTH) General Stonewall Jackson
“Stood as a stone wall in battle”

6. Soldier’s Life

7. Field Hospital

8. George McClellan Led the Union Army Made many fatal errors
Lincoln fired him after Antietam in 1863

9. Ulysses S. Grant Replaced McClellan
Led the Union forces throughout the remainder of the Civil War
Favored “Total War”

10. Shiloh Union Victory Tennessee
Confederate troops surprised Union troops at dawn
Shiloh taught both sides to prepare, scout and dig trenches for protection
Video available

11. The War at Sea Monitor: North’s Ironclad Ship Merrimack
Splinter wooden ships, resist burning
Merrimack
1862 engaged the Monitor: battle was a draw
End of wooden warships

12. The Union Navy

13. Robert E. Lee Confederate Commander Opposed to secession
Loyal to Virginia
Brilliant Leader

14. Antietam Bloodiest single day battle of Civil War 26,000 casualties
Standoff, South retreated to Virginia

15. Emancipation Proclamation
Pres. Lincoln freed slaves in the Confederacy
Did NOT apply to areas under Union control

16. Life during the Civil war
Writ of Habeas Corpus suspended
13,000 Confederate Sympathizers jailed
Copperheads: Northerners who wanted peace with the South
Many were jailed
Women’s roles

17. Life in the South

18. Conscription Drafting of civilians to serve in army “Rich Man’s War”
Could pay for someone to replace you in army
Planters with 20 or more slaves did not have to serve

19. Lincoln’s View on Slavery
Disliked slavery
Fed gov’t did not have the power to end slavery where it existed
MAIN OBJECTIVE SAVE THE UNION!!
Wanted free blacks to stay in the South because they would take northern jobs

20. African Americans 10% of Union Army High death rate Slave resistance
Sabotage
Breaking plows
Whites afraid of slave revolts
54th Massachusetts
Battle Battery Wagner
Fought with valor and courage
1st into battle

21. Regions SOUTH Lack of manpower Union occupation Loss of slaves NORTH
Economic Growth
Making weapons
Manufacturing
Income Tax: first tax needed to pay for the war

22. Clara Barton
Union Nurse
“Angel of the Battlefield”
Red Cross

23. Andersonville Worst Confederate Prison
33,000 Union soldiers held in Georgia on 26 acres
No shelter, drank from stream that was also sewer
1/3 died

24. Gettysburg! 1863: Lee invades the North Fights the Army of the Potomac
TURNING POINT: South would never again invade the North

25. Gettysburg Address
Cemetery Dedication: Lincoln’s most famous speech

26. Chancellorsville Lee out fought Union forces and the Union retreated
Stonewall Jackson shot by “friendly fire”
Died of pneumonia

27. Sherman’s March Total War
Union destroyed the South: Military and Civilians
Burned Atlanta
Marched North toward Richmond, VA

28. Destruction in the South

29. Vicksburg TURNING POINT! Grant outflanked city for 6 weeks
Cut off Confederate supplies

30. Appomattox Court House
End of war: Richmond evacuated
Lee’s trapped army surrenders to Gen. Grant

31. End of the War

32. John Wilkes Booth Kills Pres. Lincoln five days after the war ended
Ford’s Theater
Shot while fleeing Virginia
Lincoln: first president to be assassinated

33. A Nation Mourns

34. 13th Amendment
Freed the slaves and began Reconstruction