1. The Civil War ( )

2. Review Quiz In what harbor was Fort Sumter?
Who was considered the best military General in the Civil War?
Name one advantage for both the North and South as the Civil War started.
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
In what year was the Gettysburg Address delivered?

3. Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas) July, 1861

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

5. The “Anaconda” Plan

6. Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
23,000 casualties
“No tongue can tell, no mind conceive, no pen portray the horrible sights I witnessed.”
- Northern Soldier

7. Emancipation in 1863

8. African-American Recruiting Poster

9. African-Americans in Civil War Battles

10. The Famous 54th Massachusetts

11. Wartime Politics Union home front was wrought with problems.
Democratic Party divided:
War Democrats who supported the war effort
Peace Democrats “Copperheads” did not.
Democrats criticized Republicans:
Centralization of power of President
Efforts towards emancipation
Lincoln responded to dissension in the border states by declaring martial law and declaring the suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus.

12. Battle of Gettysburg: July 1-3, 1863

14. Pickett’s Charge – July 3

18. Gettysburg Casualties

19. Inflation in the South

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

21. 1864 Presidential Election Results

22. Surrender at Appomattox April 9, 1865

23. Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)

26. The Assassination

27. “Thus always to tyrants”
The Assassin
“Sic semper tyrannis”
“Thus always to tyrants”
John Wilkes Booth

28. Now He Belongs to the Ages!

29. Civil War Casualties vs. Other Wars