American Civil War

1. The American
Civil War

2. North vs. South in 1861
North South
Advantages ? ?
Disadvantages ? ?

3. Union and Confederate Resources, 1861

4. Resources:
North &
the South

5. Railroad
Lines,
1860

6. Men
Present
for Duty
in the
Civil War

7. Soldiers’ Occupations:
North/South Combined

8. The “Anaconda” Plan

9. Overview of Civil
War Strategy
Anaconda Plan:
1. US Navy blockades
CSA
2. US riverboats and
armies move down
Miss R. to split
CSA
3. US captures
Richmond, VA.

10. Wanted:
Commander of
armed forces.
Robert E. Lee
Army of
Northern
Virginia
Chapter 7
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11. The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis VP Alexander Stevens

12. Lincoln’s Generals
Irwin McDowell
Winfield Scott
George McClellan,
Again!
George McClellan
Ambrose Burnside
Joseph Hooker
George Meade
Ulysses S. Grant

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

14. Confederate Hero
of Manassas:
Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson
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15. Bull Run → Lincoln
calls for 500,000 men!
McClellan → head of
Army of the Potomac

16. Civil War Battles
Ft. Sumter, SC
4/12/61
Actions: Outcomes:
First Bull Run
(Manassas)
7/21/61
Two inexperienced armies clash in
N. VA.
Jackson stands like “stone wall.”
US army retreats to DC
CSA morale boosted
US tries to resupply Ft. Sumter;
CSA fires
First shots fired 
CSA = aggressor

17. War in the East: 1861-1862

18. Battle of Antietam
“Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
23,000 casualties
September 17, 1862

20. Peninsular Campaign
Mar-Aug 1862
Antietam
9/17/62
VA/MD: McClellan’s US Army
lands in S. VA and marches on
Richmond
JEB Stuart’s CSA cavalry cuts
off McClellan taking prisoners
and supplies
CSA defends Richmond due
to superior military
leadership
Lee (CSA) takes offensive,
invades MD.
McClellan’s troops find Lee’s
plans and moves to defend.
Lee’s invasion fails; McClellan
allows Lee to retreat to VA.
Lincoln fires McClellan; makes
Emancipation Proclamation.
Actions: Outcomes:

21. The
Emancipation
Proclamation

22. Emancipation in 1863

23. The Southern View of Emancipation

24. African-American Recruiting Poster

26. The Famous 54th Massachusetts

28. African-Americans
in Civil War Battles

29. Black Troops Freeing Slaves

30. The Battle of the Ironclads,
March, 1862
The Monitor vs.
the Merrimac

32. Damage on the Deck of the Monitor

33. Extensive Legislation Passed
Without the South in Congress
1861 – Morrill Tariff Act
1862 – Homestead Act
1862 – Legal Tender Act
1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act
1862 – Emancipation Proclamation
(1/1/1863)
1863 – Pacific Railway Act
1863 – National Bank Act

34. The War in
the West,
1863:
Vicksburg

36. The Road to Gettysburg: 1863

37. Chapter 7
• Day 1
– July 1, 1863

38. Chapter 7
• Day 2
– July 2, 1863

39. Chapter 7
• Day 3
– July 3, 1863

40. Gettysburg Casualties

41. Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth, upon this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived,
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
here on a great battlefield of that war. We have
come to dedicate a portion of it as a final
resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.

42. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we
can not consecrate - we can not hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled, here, have consecrated it far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember, what we say
here, but can never forget what they did here.

43. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work which they have,
thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us - that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which
they here gave the last full measure of devotion
- that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall
have a new birth of freedom; and that this
government of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from the earth.

44. Gettysburg, PA
July 1-3, 1863
Vicksburg, MS
April-July 1863
Lee invades PA.
CSA attack for 3 days; ends with
unsuccessful Pickett’s Charge.
‘High tide’ of CSA
Bloodiest battle in
American history.
Turning point of the war!
CSA never invades again;
defeat is inevitable.
Grant lays siege; Vicksburg
surrenders after 6 wks.
CSA loses control of Miss R.
CSA split in two
Actions: Outcomes:

45. Politics of War
Habeas corpus – right of accused to see court
and hear charges suspended by Lincoln
Copperheads – N Dems who advocated peace
with the south

46. The North
Initiates the
Draft, 1863

47. Recruiting Irish Immigrants in NYC

48. Recruiting Blacks in NYC

49. Buy Your Way Out of Military
Service

50. NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

51. NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

52. A “Pogrom” Against Blacks

53. Inflation in the South

54. 1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R) George McClellan (D)

55. The Peace Movement: Copperheads
Clement Vallandigham

56. 1864 Copperhead Campaign
Poster

58. Sherman’s
“March to
the Sea”
1864

60. The Progress of War: 1861-1865

61. Presidential
Election
Results:
1864

62. The Final Virginia Campaign:
1864-1865

63. Surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865

64. Sherman’s March to the Sea
May– Dec 1864
Wilderness Campaign →
Petersburg →
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
Summer 1864 - Apr 1865
Sherman takes Atlanta, drives
to Savannah
Scorched earth from
GA to Carolinas breaks
Southern morale
US fights up James R. and lays
siege to Petersburg for 10 mos.
Petersburg falls  Richmond
abandoned
Lee escapes but surrenders to
Grant at Appomattox
Courthouse, VA. one wk later
Lee surrenders Army
of Northern Virginia
 end of major
fighting
Last CSA surrender by
end of May
Actions: Outcomes:

65. Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars

67. Casualties of War

70. Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)

71. The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth

72. The Assassination

73. WANTED~~!!

74. Now He Belongs
to the Angels Ages!

75. The Execution