Transcript The Battle of Manassas

The War in the West
Ulysses S. Grant knew that taking
control of the Mississippi River would
cut off food to the Confederacy.
• Feb. 1862 Grant, with help of
gunboats, takes two outposts on key
rivers.
• Ft. Henry - Tennessee River
• Ft. Donelson - Cumberland River
Tennessee River
Battle of Shiloh
Peace)
(Place of
Battle of Shiloh
Advancing south into Tennessee,
Grant stops near Shiloh Church to
await the Army of Ohio.
Battle of Shiloh
Memorial to the soldiers of the
South at Shiloh
Control Mississippi River
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Grant heads down river
Union Navy blasts up river.
Port of New Orleans
Gateway to the
Mississippi.
Gun Boats & Ironclads
CSS Calhoun in 1861-62
USS Calhoun in 1862-64
USS Miami
Union side-wheel gunboat
American Civil War
USS Miami
USS Miami
USS Monitor
USS Monitor
Ironclad Virginia formerly the Merrimac
C.S.S. Virginia
CSS Virginia
The Union Navy
David Farragut
• Born in Tennessee
• Join the Union moved
his family north
• January 1862
instructions to enter
the Mississippi and
capture New Orleans
• May of 1862 attempted
to subdue Vicksburg
• Bombardment was unsuccessful
• Vicksburg 200 ft. river bluffs
• Many guns could not reach up but
they could fire down.
• Returns again in June but decides
to run past Vicksburg to join
Commander Davis of the Western
Flotilla 20 miles north.
Siege of Vicksburg
Vicksburg
"Vicksburg is the key.
The war can never be
brought to a close until
the key is in our
pocket," said Abraham
Lincoln
"Vicksburg is the nail head
That holds the South's two halves
together," said
Confederate President
Jefferson Davis
Vicksburg during the Civil War
Vicksburg, the fortified city
considered essential to the
Union's plan to regain control of
the Mississippi River.
On May 22, Grant
began a siege of the city.
After six weeks, they surrendered,
giving up the city and 30,000 men.
Not wanting to feed 30,000
prisoners Grant offered them parole.
The capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana,
shortly thereafter placed the entire
Mississippi River in Union hands.
The Confederacy was split in two. . . .