1. The U.S. Civil War

3. Abraham Lincoln Elected President of the U.S. in 1860
First Republican to be elected President
16th President of the US
Deepened sectionalism
“Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free…”

5. Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America

7. North versus South
The Confederate states of America included 11 states
The south had a population of 9 million people. This included 4 million slaves
The Union was comprised of 24 states
The population was 20 million people

8. Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Was offered the command of Union forces but returned to his homestate of Virginia
Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox

9. Union General Ulysses S. Grant
Given command after a series of victories, including Vicksburg
Hi plan was to concentrate on Sherman’s march through Georgia and his own assault in Virginia

10. Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 Charleston, South Carolina
Confederates open fire on the fort, beginning the Civil War

12. Antietam 1862 First major battle in the North (Maryland)
Bloodiest single one day battle- 23,000 casualties
McClellan fails to destroy Lee’s army
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation after Antietam
The draft began to meet the demand for soldiers

13. Emancipation Proclamation
Jan 1, 1863 – issued by President Lincoln freeing all slaves in Confederate states and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery.

15. Gettysburg July 1-3 1863 92,000 Union troops/76,000 Confederate troops
Pennsylvania
Turns the tide of war with the union victory
The greatest single battle of the Civil War

16. Aftermath at Gettysburg

17. Vicksburg July 4, 1863 (May-July)
Confederates surrender to General Grant
This split the Confederacy in two.
This victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

19. Lee’s Surrender
April 9, 1865
Small Virginia town of Appomattox Court House
Grant gave generous terms of surrender
Confederates could return home
Were allowed to take private possessions and horses
Food was given to the hungry

20. Others worth mentioning…
Philip Bazaar
Won the Medal of Honor
Born in Chili and was a Union Navy seaman
Entered Fort Fisher to carry out dispatches at the height of the battle
William Carney-
Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
First black soldier to get this award
Wounded twice while trying to save the flag
Served w/ the 54th Massachusetts