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Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861
Victory:
Confederacy
Major Robert Anderson
Gen. PGT Beauregard
Fort Sumter
• Message from Commander Anderson to President
Lincoln: “Supplies at the Fort are
almost gone. If new supplies are not sent soon, we will
be forced to surrender the fort to the Confederacy.”
• Lincoln decided to send supply ships and see what the
Southerners would do
• Davis decided to take over the fort BEFORE the supply
ships arrived.
• The Confederates demanded that the Union surrender.
• The Union leaders reply: NEVER!
• The Confederate troops FIRED on the fort. Eventually,
Major Anderson and his men ran out of ammunition and
had to give up.
• The Civil War had officially begun!
Generals at Bull Run
General Irwin McDowell
General PGT Beauregard
Victory:
Confederacy
The First Battle of Bull Run
July 1861
“There is Jackson standing like
a stone wall.”
Confederate General Bernard
Bee’s famous quote gave
Jackson his nickname of
“Stonewall” during the First
Battle of Bull Run
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
Battle of Antietam
September 1862
Victory:
Union
Gen. George B. McClellan
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Antietam: Deadliest Day in the
History of America: Sep. 17, 1862
• More Americans died on this September
day than on any other day in the nation’s
military history including World War II’s DDay and September 11th terrorist attacks.
• The Union had 12,401 casualties with
2,108 dead. Confederate casualties were
10,318 with 1,546 dead. This represented
25% of the Federal force and 31% of the
Confederate force.
The Bloodiest Day of the Civil War"
The Battle of Antietam
Confederate Losses
Union Losses
Killed-1,512
Killed--2,108
Wounded--7,816
Wounded--9,549
Captured/Missing--1,844
Captured/Missing--753
Battle of Vicksburg – July 1863
Victory:
Union
Gen. Ulysses Grant
Gen. Albert Johnson
Scott’s Great Snake (also known as the Anaconda Plan after the snake that kills by
constriction) was proposed in 1861 by Union General Winfield Scott to win the
American Civil War with minimal loss of life, by enveloping the Confederacy with a
blockade at sea and control of the Mississippi River. With the victory at the Battle of
Vicksburg, the Union effectively gained control of the Mississippi River to help
complete the last phase of the Anaconda Plan.
The Battle of Gettysburg
Victory:
Union
Gen. George Gordon Meade
Gen. Robert E. Lee
The Battle of Gettysburg
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July 1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Robert E. Lee was invading
One of the most important Union victories
Over 7,000 soldiers died
Turning point in the war- Lee’s army was
severely weakened due to the killing of most of
his men.
• He gave the famous “Gettysburg Address”
speech. Although it was less than 3 minutes, it
became one of the most famous speeches in
history.
Sherman’s Atlanta
Campaign
• May – September
1864
• Sherman began
attack on Atlantawhich was a center
for supplies, factories,
and railroads
• Sherman sent a
message to Lincoln
telling him that he had
taken over Atlanta
and “Atlanta is ours
and fairly won.”
Gen. William T. Sherman
Victory:
Union
Sherman’s
March to the Sea
Victory:
Union
Gen. William T. Sherman
Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Nov. – Dec. 1864
• 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.
• Much of Georgia
burned to the ground
• Goal was to destroy
everything that could
help the South in the
war
•Burned homes, stores, crops,
animals, bridges, railroad
tracks….everything!
•Savannah fell to the Union on
Dec. 22, 1864
The
Atlanta
Depot
before.
The Ruins
of the
Atlanta
Depot,
blown up on
Sherman’s
way out of
town.
An Atlanta
home damaged
by shelling
During the
Battle of
Atlanta.
More destruction at the
Railroad depot in
Atlanta, Ga.
Federal troops tearing up track,
destroying telegraph lines, and burning
a depot during Sherman's March to the
Sea.
Lee’s Surrender at
Appomattox Court House
• The Civil War ended when Gen.
Robert E. Lee surrendered at
McLean House in Appomattox Court
House, Virginia on April 9, 1865.
• He met with Union General Ulysses
S. Grant to discuss the final
conditions for the surrender of
Confederate troops.
Victory:
Union