Transcript Civil War II

THE CIVIL WAR
Southern Victories
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Grant
Appomattox
Robert E. Lee of Virginia
“Stonewall” Jackson
Lee pushes North
• Second Bull Run: Halleck replaced
– McClellan. Lee and Jackson double attack
• Antietam (Sept 17, 1862) McClellan
– Back in charge
– Lee goes deep into Maryland
– 70,000 Union v. 40,000 Confederate
– Bloodiest day in US Military history: 5,000
– Union wins slight victory
– Lee escapes
– Britain decides not to support Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
• Radical Republicans push for emancipation
• Lincoln waits for a victory- Antietam
• Proclamation Jan 1, 1863: “Slaves shall be
– Forever Free.”
• Black soldiers: 200,000 fight for Union
• (Abe signs 13th Amendment: Jan 13, 65)
• Democrats won in 1863 elections
• Draft Riots: Conscription, Irish riots NY
Lincoln at Antietam
Black Troops: 4/5th freed slaves
Confederate Victories
• Fredericksburg (Dec 1862): Burnside
• Chancellorsville (May 1863): Jackson dies
• Gettysburg (July1-4, 1963) Pennsylvania
• Big Northern Victory: Turning Point of War
– Cemetery Ridge, Picket’s charge
– Meade slow, Lee escapes over Potomac
Lincoln Finds his General: Grant
• Siege of Vicksburg (July 4, 1863)
• Grant promoted: Chickamauga
• Grant promoted to general in chief
• South: economic and social chaos
Ulysses S. Grant
Atlanta Burns
• William T. Sherman
• “Total War:” burns path 60 x 120 miles
• Atlanta falls (Sept 2, 1864)
• Savannah falls (Dec 22, 1865)
William T. Sherman
Atlanta
Columbia
Union Victory
• Grant pushed towards Richmond
• Battle of the Wilderness
• Lee cannot replace troops
• Siege of Petersburg
• Lincoln reelected against McClellan
• Richmond falls: Lincoln visits
• Appomattox: Lee and Grant meet
– And sign treaty
• Lincoln assassinated by Booth: 4/14/1865
Siege of Petersburg
Appomattox Courthouse
April 9, 1865
600,000 died in Civil War
Results of the War
• 600,200 die. More than all wars combined
• 13 Amendment: slavery ended
• One Nation, based on liberty & equality
– United States “is,” not the United States “are”
– End of state’s rights doctrine, nullification