1. American Civil War
The People
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2. The Union (North)

3. President Abraham Lincoln
Elected president in (Republican)
Primary goal in fighting the war was to “preserve the Union”
Appointed Grant as General of the Union Army
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation and promoted the 13th Amendment (ending slavery)
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

4. General Ulysses S. Grant
Graduated from U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Appointed as Commander of the Union Army
Won many of the Union’s most important victories
Accepts Lee’s Surrender, ending the Civil War

5. William Tecumseh Sherman
Graduated from U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Served as second-in-command under General Grant
Destroyed Atlanta
His “March to the Sea” helped end the Confederacy’s will to fight

6. The Confederacy (South)

7. President (C.S.A.) Jefferson Davis
Graduated from U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Had served as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi and the U.S. Secretary of War
Elected as President of the Confederate States of America
Appointed General Lee as commander of the Confederate Army

8. General Robert E. Lee
Graduated from U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Appointed as commander of the Confederate Army
Led Confederate Army against larger and more well-supplied Union forces
Forced to surrender to Grant, ending the war

9. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Graduated from U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Won 1st Battle of Bull Run (1st battle of the war)
Second-in-command under General Lee
Shot by his own troops at Battle of Chancellorsville, and died of complications

10. American Civil War
The Battles
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11. Fort Sumter
Describe: April, 1861 – Confederates attack Union Fort Sumter. Union forces surrender after 24 hours.
Importance: This battle is the start of the Civil War
Geography: Controlling Fort Sumter = controlling the harbor of Charleston, SC.

12. Response to Fort Sumter

13. Response to Fort Sumter

14. Anaconda Plan

15. Anaconda Plan Union’s strategy to win the war Blockade southern ports
Split the Confederacy in two by taking control of Mississippi River
Capture Richmond, VA, the capital of the Confederacy

16. Generals at Bull Run General McDowell vs. General Beauregard

17. Battle of Bull Run First major battle of the Civil War
Only 25 miles from Washington, D.C.
South won and southern general Stonewall Jackson won his nickname because he stood firm in battle

18. Battle of Bull Run

19. Battle of Antietam
Describe: September, 1862 – Battle is Maryland was the bloodiest single day of the war (23,000 casualties). Ended in a tie.
Importance: Stopped Gen. Lee’s (Cf) march into the north. Showed that Lee could be stopped.
Geography: 1st battle on northern soil

20. Battle of Antietam

24. Chancellorsville, Virginia
Confederate victory in 1863
Stonewall Jackson was shot and killed accidentally by his own troops.

26. Emancipation Proclamation
It freed the slaves only in states that have seceded from the Union.
It did not free slaves in border states. 26

27. Battle of Gettysburg
In 1863, General Lee decided again to invade the North. His army met Union forces at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The Union won after three days of fierce fighting
Over 51, 000 people killed or wounded in 3 days It was the last time the South invaded the North.
Gettysburg was considered a turning point in the war because Northerners gained new life after finally defeating Lee’s army

28. Gettysburg

30. Gettysburg Address
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln’s speech gave new purpose to the sacrifices being made by the Union to win the war. The conflict was no longer just about “preserving the Union.” 30

32. Battle of Vicksburg Describe: May-July, 1863 Importance / Geography:
General Grant (Un) leads a 3 month siege on Vicksburg, MS. Confederates are forced to surrender.
Importance / Geography:
Union gains control of the Miss. River. (Arkansas, Louisiana, & Texas were cut off from the rest of the South).

33. Battle of Vicksburg

34. Battle for Atlanta July-September, 1864:
The Union army surrounds and captures Atlanta. This city was the transportation hub of the south, and its capture strangled confederate resistance.

35. William Tecumseh Sherman
Grant gave the military division of the Mississippi to Sherman.
Both generals sought a total victory over the South.
This meant not only conquering the South’s army and government, but also its civilian population.

36. Sherman’s March to the Sea
On November 12, 1864, Sherman marched out of Atlanta toward the Atlantic coast.
Tracing a line of march between Macon and Augusta, he carved a sixty-mile wide swath of destruction in the Confederacy's heartland.

38. Union Prison Camp at Andersonville, GA

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

40. Distributing “Rations”

41. Union “Survivors”

42. Burying Dead Union POWs

43. Lee Surrenders to Grant
April 3, 1865
Grant surrounds Lee’s Confederate Army, and Lee is forced to surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Marks the of the Civil War.

44. Surrender at Appomattox