AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

1861-1865

 

•          Slide 1: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery."

 

 1860 Abraham Lincoln:.

 

Slide 2: "All we ask is to be let alone."

 

January 1861 southern states:

 

 Eventually:

 

Jefferson Davis named:

 

Slide 3:  UNION ADVANTAGES

 

10:1 Factory:

 

7:1 Railroad

 

 9:1 Merchant:

 

 3:1 Farm:

 

4:1 Bank:

 

Slide 4:  SOUTHERN ADVANTAGES

 

Fighting a:

 

Short:

 

Friendly:

.

 

Experienced officer

 

Slide 5: UNION STRATEGY

 

ANACONDA PLAN

 

Capture Richmond and:

 

 Expel Confederates from:

 

 Control the:

 

 Blockade:

 

Slide 6: CONFEDRATE STRATEGY

 

Capture:

 

Control the:

 

Prolong:

 

Slide 7: WAR

 

April 12, 1861 Confederate forces attack:

 

Lincoln asks for:

 

Davis asks for:

 

Lincoln orders the blockade of:

 

Confederate capital moves to:

 

Slide 7: BULL RUN

 

First major engagement in the:

 

 Union forces were:

 

 People began to realize it would not:

 

Slide 8: IRONCLADS

 

The Confederate ironclad the Merrimack (Virginia) and Monitor battle to a:

 

Slide 9: WAR IN THE WEST 1862

 

 In the West Ulysses S. Grant captures Forts:

 

Slide 10: WAR IN THE WEST 1862

 

 April 6, 1862 battle of:

 

 Union forces under Grant:

 

April 1862:

 

Slide 11: 1862 WAR IN THE EAST

 

 April 1862 Confederacy:

 

 Union forces commanded by George B. McClellan advance:

Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee forces:

 

Slide 12: WAR IN THE EAST 1862

 

 Lee and Jackson defeat Union forces at:

 

 In Sept. 1862 Lee invades the North but is turned back at

 

Slide 13: EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

 

Victory at Antietam enables Lincoln to issue the:

 

Lincoln issues the Proclamation on:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 14:  BLACK SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR

 

With the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation recruitment of:

 

 179,000 Blacks serve:

 

19,000 serve in the:

 

Slide15: WAR IN THE EAST

 

December 13, 1862Union army endures a crushing defeat at:

 

Slide 14: GETTYSBURG

 

•          After the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville, VA May 1-2, 1863.

 

Lee invades the:

 

July 1-3, 1863 Confederate and Union forces clash at:

 

 Union forces under George Meade:

 

•           Turning point of the war.

 

Slide 15: DRAFT RIOTS

 

In 1863 the Union Starts:

 

New York newspapers print stories of freed slave taking:

 

 Riots breakout 1.5 million dollars in

 

 

Up to 100:

 

Federal troops:

 

Slide 16:  WAR IN THE WEST

 

May 1863 Grant lays siege to Vicksburg MS last Southern stronghold on the :

 

Slide 17: VICKSBURG FALLS

 

•          On July 4, 1863 Vicksburg surrenders.

 

The Mississippi River is in:

 

Confederacy is:

 

Slide 18: Election of 1864

 

In early 1864 Lincoln felt he was unlikely to win re-election,

 

 The Democrats nominated:

 

•           Between the Democratic convention and the election, there were spectacular Union victories including Sherman's capture of Atlanta.

 

Lincoln receiving an estimated 80% of votes of:

 

 

Slide 19:  FINAL CAMPAIGNS 1864

 

Grant takes command of the:

 

 War of attrition: Fight until the South runs out of:

 

Slide 20: GRANT MOVES SOUTH

 

 Grant presses:

 

Even thought defeated he continues to:

 

Summer of 1864 Grant lays siege:

 

Slide 21: MARCH TO THE SEA

 

While Grant presses Lee to the north Sherman:

 

He conducts a Total War: war against the enemies:

 

 

 

Slide 22: ATLANTA

 

On September 2, 1864 Union troops capture:

 

Sherman continues through GA and the:

 

His troops cut a 60 mile swath:

 

Slide 23:  THE END 1865

 

Grant forces Lee out:

 

Lee tries to escape to the west:

 

April 9, 1865 Lee surrenders at:

 

Slide 24: LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION

 

 President Lincoln favored:

 

April 14, 1865 Lincoln attended a play at:

 

Lincoln is assassinated by: