Fighting the Civil War

Shots Fired -war begins at Fort Sumter, S.C., First battle of Bull Run -July Southern victory -did not pursue the retreating Union army -citizens watched the battle

Shiloh -April costly victory for Grant -demonstrated the cost of victory would be great

Antietam -Sept bloodiest single day of the war 16,000 dead in one day -Union victory for McClellan

Vicksburg -Nov Grant surrounds city on the Mississippi -try to split the south

Confederate Victories -Confederates greatly outnumbered but Lee still wins -Dec Fredericksburg -May Chancellorsville -Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is killed

Gettysburg -July Lee invades North -Little Round Top -Cemetery Ridge -Pickett’s Charge -turning point of the war as Lee is defeated -Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln several months later

Gettysburg -July Lee invades North -Little Round Top -Cemetery Ridge -Pickett’s Charge -turning point of the war as Lee is defeated -Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln several months later

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

Sherman’s March ”March to the Sea”: -Total War “War is Hell” -burning of Atlanta -destroy the will to fight

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

War’s End -April Grant surrounds Lee outside Richmond -surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Costs of War -deaths 360,000 Union 260,000 Conf. -1/2 million wounded -about 20 billion $ 5 times the amount spent in 80 years Political Changes -Power of the Federal Gov’t is supreme -extension of federal powers -income taxes first used -citizens drafted into service -civil liberties suppressed

The Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN (April 12, 1864)

Nathan Bedford Forrest (Captured Fort Pillow)  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.  262 African-Americans  295 white Union soldiers.  Ordered black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]  Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.

Confederate Prison Camp at Point Lookout, MD  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had almost 50,000 at one time.  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had almost 50,000 at one time.

Point Lookout Memorial of 4,000 Dead Rebel Prisoners

Union Prison Camp at Andersonville, GA

Original Andersonville Plan  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had over 32,000 at one time.  Planned to hold 10,000 men.  Had over 32,000 at one time.

Distributing “Rations”

Union “Survivors”

Union Prisoner’s Record at Andersonville

Burying Dead Union POWs

Andersonville Cemetary

Economic Changes -growth of war related industries -Northern industry grew stronger -southern economy is destroyed -must be rebuilt

Lives Change -13 th Amendment bans slavery -soldiers return to their homes -urban population grows -many move west -many families destroyed by deaths of soldiers

Lincoln’s Assassination -Lincoln’s Plan forgiving peace to restore the Union -At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end

Lincoln’s Assassination -Lincoln’s Plan forgiving peace to restore the Union -At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end -John Wilkes Booth -First assassination of a President

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