Transcript Advantage & Disadvantage

The Civil War
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
• July 3 “The Deciding Day”
- Conf. Attacks center of Union lines
- Cemetery Ridge (Pickett’s Charge)
• "It is all my fault. This has been my fight,
and upon my shoulders rests the blame“ Robert E. Lee
• UNION - 85,000 23,000 casualties
• CONF - 75,000 28,000 casualties
Siege of VICKSBURG
(Western Campaign)
• Vicksburg (Western Campaign)
• Grant attacks ( 6 months )
• Siege of Vicksburg (2,800 shells-day)
- July 4, 1863 Vicksburg SURRENDER
- Mississippi under UNION control
• Importance of 1863
• -North “we can win this war”
-South “think about peace / or losing
•Gettysburg Address (Nov.19, 1863)
– Cemetery dedication at Gettysburg
– 2 minute speech (Lincoln)
• New definition of of the United States
– (1st) Declaration of Independence
• 3 Democratic Principles
1.God gave rights 2.Gov’t protect rights 3.Rebel
– (2)Freedom for ALL, not just a few)
• Sept - “Chickamauga” Confederate
• Nov. - “Chattanooga” Union
– Capture of Look Out Mountain
• March 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant named
“Supreme Commander of Union”
(Sherman- Union Army in Tenn)
• “Down I-75 Path”
– Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)
• March to the Sea (Psychological War)
1st Time Civilians “purposely” attacked by
organized army (60 mile path destruction)
– Sherman's March / History Channel
• 1864 Grant “wears down Lee” one battle
after another in the East
• Sept 1864 Atlanta BURNED
• Fall ‘64- Lincoln re-elected President
• “March to Coast” (Savannah, SC, NC)
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War
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Atrocities
The Final Virginia Campaign:
1864-1865
• Cold Harbor (8 miles from Richmond)
-7,000 Union casualties in 1 hour
• Siege of Petersburg
-cut-off food & supplies to Richmond
-attack fails
North Takes Charge
• Grant Takes Command (EAST)
-William Tecumseh Sherman (West)
• GRANT 120,000 Troops
LEE
65,000 Troops
• Battle of Wilderness May 5, 1864
-dense forest (Caught FIRE)
-Confed. Victory BUT Grant Advances
• Spotsylvania (2 weeks)
bodies
piled
4 high
Surrender at Appomattox
Sherman continued his burning through
North Carolina with hopes of reaching
Virginia. But, General Lee attempted to
halt the Union Army and break through
Grant's lines in Petersburg, VA. The
Union seized Petersburg on April 2, 1865 and then
Richmond on the next
day. Union forces cut
Lee off from leading his
remaining army to
North Carolina.
• On April 9, 1865,
General Lee surrendered
to Grant waving the white
flag atop a hill overlooking
the Appomattox River in
Virginia.
• General Grant later accepted General Lee's surrender in
the Appomattox Court House.
• April 2, 1865 - Richmond
Falls
• April 7, Lee sends message to Grant
• April 9, 1865 Lee Surrenders
at Appomattox Courthouse
• April 14,1865 - Fords Theatre
Abraham Lincoln assassinated
John Wilkes Booth
Copperhead
Conspiracy
Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)
The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth
The Assassination
WANTED~~!!
Now He Belongs to the Ages!
The Execution
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars