1. CIVIL WAR
Timeline

2. Early Campaigns and Battles- 1862 Southern Victories
Northern achievements by 1862
total naval supremacy
Confederate troops cleared from West Virginia, Kentucky, much of Tennessee
New Orleans captured
Confederate achievements by 1862
stall campaign for the Mississippi at Shiloh
defend Richmond from capture

3. The Coming of Emancipation – 1863 War Turns Against the South
September 22, Antietam prompts preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
surrender in 100 days or lose slaves
January 1, Proclamation put into effect for areas still in rebellion
African Americans flee to Union lines
Confederacy loses thousands of laborers

4. Effects of Emancipation - 1863
200,000 African American Union troops
54th Massachusetts is first! (Glory)
Many others labor in Northern war effort
Lincoln pushes further for black rights
organizes governments in conquered Southern states that abolish slavery
Maryland, Missouri abolish slavery
January 31, th Amendment will be passed

5. The Tide Turns - 1863 May, 1863--war-weariness July, 1863
New York riots against conscription (pg. 466)
Grant seems bogged down at Vicksburg
Union defeated at Chancellorsville
Democrats attack Lincoln
July, 1863
Lee loses Battle of Gettysburg
Vicksburg falls, North holds the Mississippi

6. Last Stages of the Conflict – 1864
March 9, Grant made supreme commander of Union armies
Union invades the South on all fronts
William Sherman marches through Georgia
Grant lays siege to Richmond, Petersburg
September 2--Sherman takes Atlanta
November 8--Lincoln reelected

7. Last Stages of the Conflict - 1865
April 9, Lee surrenders at Appomatox Court House, VA.
April 14--Lincoln assassinated
May 26--Final capitulation of Confederacy