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1 Bring Stickers to class tomorrow!

2 New Orleans Falls! April 25, 1862

3 New Orleans Falls! April 25, 1862
New Orleans was wealthiest confederate city

4 New Orleans Falls! April 25, 1862
David Farragut battles at sea (75 miles from N.O.)

5 New Orleans Falls! April 25, 1862
David Farragut battles at sea (75 miles from N.O.) - Tries to knock out forts (Ft. Jackson, Ft. St. Phillip)

6 New Orleans Falls! April 25, 1862
Two weeks of shelling fails; gauntlet instead

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8 - All but one ship survive, take New Orleans!!
Largest Southern port now UNION CONTROLED!!

9 New Orleans Falls! Union soldiers take over the city!
General Benjamin Butler raised Union Flags in the city, and women spat on his men for it. When one man tried to take the Union Flag back down, Butler had him hung. Confederates called him “Beast” Butler. Confederate citizens destroyed boxes and boxes of supplies including ammunition, cotton, and other goods so the Union couldn’t have them. Union soldiers take over the city!

10 New Orleans Falls!

11 Bull Run (Part II) August 29, 1862

12 Bull Run (Part II) August 29, 1862
North calls 300,000 more volunteers

13 Bull Run (Part II) August 29, 1862
North calls 300,000 more volunteers McClellan called back to meet Pope

14 Bull Run (Part II) August 29, 1862
North calls 300,000 more volunteers McClellan called back to meet Pope Robert E. Lee sends for Stonewall (50 miles / two days) to attack a Union supply base at Manassas

15 Bull Run (Part II) August 29, 1862
Robert E. Lee sends for Stonewall (50 miles / two days) to attack a Union supply base at Manassas

16 Bull Run (Part II) August 29, 1862
(REBEL WIN; casualties similar; 4,000 Union soldiers captured)

17 Bull Run (Part II) August 29, 1862
Rebels only 25 miles outside of Washington

18 Bull Run (Part II) Rebels only 25 miles outside of Washington
- North getting weary of war

19 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
Jefferson Davis huge victory = foreign support (England, France)

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21 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) Lee Marches toward Maryland
September 17, 1862 Lee Marches toward Maryland

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23 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
“Three Cigars” shows McClellan’s true colors (4 day wait) U=75,000 C=40,000

24 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862 Morning: Cornfield

25 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
- Morning: Sunken Road; “Bloody Lane”

26 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
- Morning: Sunken Road; “Bloody Lane”

27 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG)
September 17, 1862 Afternoon: Rebs hold Burnsides Bridge (4 hrs) then finally retreat!

28 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
Afternoon: Rebs hold Burnsides Bridge (4 hrs) then finally retreat! ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862

29 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
Afternoon: Rebs hold Burnside’s Bridge (4 hrs) then finally retreat! UNION WIN (only because Lee’s invasion is stopped)

30 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862

31 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862

32 “Destroy the rebel army!”
ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862 Lincoln “Destroy the rebel army!” Lincoln visited the site at Antietam

33 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
Lincoln “Destroy the rebel army!” McClellan declines, removed for Ambrose Burnside

34 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
Single bloodiest day in American History 6,000 dead: 17,000 wounded

35 ANTIETAM (SHARPSBURG) September 17, 1862
- Single bloodiest day in American History 6,000 dead: 17,000 wounded - Victory helps Lincoln push Emancipation


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