The 2nd Half of the Civil War
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The
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2
Half of the Civil War
Gettysburg through Lincoln’s
Assassination
Politics in the South
Draft
Southerners were not
reenlisting
General Lee pushes for a draft
– required military service
April 1862, Confederate
Congress passes first draft
law
White men from 18 to 35
required three year service
Exceptions
Owners of more than 20
slaves
Southerners wealthy enough
to hire a substitute
State’s Rights
Seeking help from Europe
Politics in the North
Tensions with Great Britain
Republicans in control
Financial Measures
1861, first federal income tax
Greenbacks
Emergency Wartime Actions
Martial Law
Draft
Opposition to the War
Riots protesting draft
Copperheads
Lincoln suspends the writ of
habeas corpus
Emancipation and the War
Lincoln and slavery
Originally
only wanted to preserve the Union
Did not think he had the right to abolish
slavery
Ending slavery became a war strategy
The Emancipation Proclamation
January
1, 1863, slaves in areas of rebellion
against the government would be free
Reaction to the Proclamation
African Americans Fight
Contraband
Slaves became property of
the Union government
Government then freed
them
African American Soldiers
Gained ability to fight after
the proclamation
Originally in all black
regiments under a white
officer
The Hardships of War
Southern Economy
Food production declines
Planters refused to stop
growing cotton
Industry increased
Inflation
Northern Economy
Most northern industries
were helped by the war
Women fill jobs
Profiteering
Prison Camps
Andersonville, Georgia
Medical Conditions
Attempt to curve disease
Disease killed most of the
people who died in the war
Clara Barton
Creates the Red Cross
The United States Sanitary
Commission
Gettysburg
July 1
July 2
Union takes position along Cemetery Ridge
Confederacy takes position along Seminary Ridge
Longstreet slow to attack, Meade gets reinforced
Little Round Top – Joshua Chamberlain, bayonets
July 3
Lee orders a direct assault on the center of the line
Pickett’s Charge
Results of Gettysburg
Union
23,000+ casualties
Confederates
28,000+ casualties
July 4th, Confederates
retreat
No other invasions of
North
Vicksburg
Grant makes unsuccessful
attempts between
December 1862 and April
1863
Grant moves around
Vicksburg and comes in
from the east
The Siege of Vicksburg
Confederates give up on
July 4th
Cut South in Half!
The Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863
Edward Everett
speaks
Lincoln speaks
New definition of the
United States
Grant Takes Command
March 1864, Lincoln gives
Grant full control of the
Union army
Grant places William
Tecumseh Sherman in
control in the west
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of Cold Harbor
The Siege of Petersburg
Sherman in Georgia
Battle of Kennesaw
Mountain
President Davis
replaces Johnston
with James Hood
Atlanta taken
Sherman’s March to
the Sea
Election of 1864
Lincoln fears losing
Andrew Johnson named Vice-President candidate
Democrat from Tennessee
Democrats nominate George McClellan
With Sherman taking Atlanta, Lincoln easily wins
Thirteenth Amendment
Passed in February of 1865 and ratified on December
6, 1865
Ended slavery in the U.S.
End of the War
Grant controls Richmond
Sherman begins to move
north
Destroys South Carolina
Appomattox Court House
Lee leaves Richmond to
unite with Johnston’s forces
April 9, 1865, Lee
surrounded at Appomattox
Court House, VA
Lee surrenders his army to
Grant
Johnston surrenders to
Sherman in North Carolina
Lincoln’s Assassination
John Wilkes Booth leads failed kidnapping plot
Booth leads plan to kill General Grant, Vice
President Johnson, Secretary of State Seward,
and President Lincoln
April 14, 1865
Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
Booth mortally wounds Lincoln
Died the next morning
Booth killed in a tobacco warehouse in Virginia