9. Dissent in the North
Northern Dems who supported peace with the
South
Lincoln’s reaction to dissent?
10.
11. Conscription
CSA adopts first; USA also
passes
Can you get out of the draft?
90% of eligible men fought
for the South
12. New York Draft Riots
What is New York like in 1863?
4 day riot;
100 people dead
Civil War 360: Civil War Draft Brings
Chaos to New York City (YouTube)
18. 1863: Turning Point
South hanging on
May: win at Chancellorsville, VA
Death of top general, Stonewall Jackson
Why does Lee invade the North?
19. Battle of Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863 – Pennsylvania
Starts with accidental skirmish
July 2: 90,000 Union soldiers
75,000 Confederate soldiers
Turning point of war
“high water mark
of the Confederacy”
23. Day 2 Highlights
South attacks Union line; fighting in a peach orchard and
wheat field
CSA assault on Little Round Top, repelled
Union troops hold high ground
26. Pickett’s Charge
Preceded by 2 hours of cannon fire
Lee orders frontal assault on center of Union line
CSA suffers 50% casualty rate
Meade does not order counter attack
Vicksburg falls
next day
27. Gettysburg Address
Nov. 1863 dedication of battle cemetery
Short speech; Lincoln not main speaker
28.
29. Surrender at Appomattox
South holds on for two years after Gettysburg
Lee surrenders Confederate Army on April 9, 1865
Lincoln orders generous terms
Within 2 months, all Confederate resistance collapses
Meade: newly installed General in Chief
Hancock: takes over after Reynolds dies; his corps takes brunt of pIcketts charge
Buford: Cavalry officer; holds off Confederate forces on Day 1 until reinforcements come
Chamberlain: Colonel, 20th Maine; repelled Confederate assault on Little Round Top Day 2 (prevents union line from being flanked)
Beginning to end of minie ball; 15:00-26:00 (write down facts about minie ball, trains, telegraph)
Civil War casualties (Search Civil War Trust death on Ipad)
Military service occupies 2.4 million men (10% of total population)
Weapons: rifle, mini ball, early machine guns, submarines, ironclads
Tactics had not caught up to technology
America story of us video
Disease: 2 out of 3 soldier deaths (handout)
Amputations common; lack of understanding of the relationship between germs and disease (infections)
Civil war medicine handout
South: during war, shortages, price spikes, inflation (p353); blockade
After war: farms, homes destroyed (total war: taking it to civilians), no labor force for plantation economy
Before war: holds 30% of nation’s wealth; 1870: 12%
North: during war – industrial machine grows, less available labor means better technology invented, income tax to raise money
After the war: railroads, National Bank Act (p367),
26 year old actor
Bel Air, MD
Southern sympathizer
Restart the war
Previous plot to kidnap
Attempt to decapitate the Federal Government
Lee surrenders April 9, 1865 (Palm Sunday)
Lincoln sees play “Our American Cousin” on Good Friday, April 14, 1865
Grant and wife supposed to attend; goes with Major Rathbone & fiance
Shot in back of the head, point blank range
Dies next morning
Clip
At seven o'clock that evening, John Wilkes Booth met for a final time with all his fellow conspirators. Booth assigned Lewis Powell to killSecretary of State William H. Seward at his home, George Atzerodt to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson at his residence, the Kirkwood Hotel, and David E. Herold to guide Powell to the Seward house and then out of Washington to rendezvous with Booth inMaryland. Booth planned to shoot Lincoln with his single-shot derringer and then stab Grant with a knife at Ford's Theatre. They were all to strike simultaneously shortly after ten o'clock that night.[17] Atzerodt wanted nothing to do with it, saying he had only signed up for a kidnapping, not a killing. Booth told him he was in too far to back out.[18]