Transcript The Civil War

The Civil War
The Most Important Battles
Fort Sumter
• Where it started.
• Confederates attacked the Union fort.
Bull Run
• Led by General
“Stonewall Jackson”
the Confederates
defeated the Union
• First major battle of
the Civil War
• Confederates
created the “Rebel
Yell”
Monitor vs. Merrimack
• First battle with “iron
clad” ships
• On March 9, 1862
both ships
exchanged fire but
neither could sink
each other
Shiloh
• Heavy casualties on both sides
• Grant led Union to a narrow victory
• Gained control of Corinth and then later
Memphis, Tennessee
Antietam
• September 17, 1862
• Was the bloodiest
day of the war
• Crucial victory for
the Union, allowed
Lincoln to take
action on slavery
Gettysburg
• Confederates were on the offensive
• Lasted three days
• The Union fought them off and drove
them out of Pennsylvania
Vicksburg
• Union victory
• Gave union control of the Mississippi
• Sealed off Texas, Louisiana, and
Arkansas
Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Sherman march
from Atlanta to
Savannah
• They cut a path of
destruction up to
fifty miles wide
• Total war resulting in
a Union victory
Results of the War
• Most devastating conflict in American
History
• 600,000 soldiers died
• Roughly two thirds of transportation in
the South destroyed