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Civil War: Battles
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Index Pages for Today:
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Big Picture:
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Examples of Lincolns Illegal Presidencies
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Legacies of the Civil War
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Minorities: 54th Massachusetts Brigade (African American unit in the Army, 1st black unit)
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Historical Period: 7. Civil War Period (1861-1865)
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War:
Name
Date
Imp People
Imp Battles
End
Significance
American Civil War
1861-1865
Lee, Grant, Sherman,
Jackson, Davis, Lincoln
Gettysburg,
Vicksburg,
Fort Sumter,
Bull Run
Appomattox
Court House
End of Slavery, Begins
Reconstruction, 13th and
14th amendments
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Political Party: Constitutional Union Party (1860) ch. 19 (incase you forgot)
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Union Party (Republicans + War Democrats) 1864
Boats Ironclads – Monitor and Merrimack
People of the Civil War (1861-1865)
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Army of Northern Virginia (Confederacy)
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Robert E Lee**
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Stonewall Jackson**
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George Pickett
Army of the Potomac (Union)
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Winfield Scott Until Bull Run
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George McClellan  Until Antietam
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Hooker, Meade, Burnside
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David Farragut (Admiral)
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Ulysses S. Grant**
FIRST TWO YEARS
LAST TWO YEARS
William Tecumseh Sherman
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Sherman used a Scorched Earth Policy when it came to the south
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Burned all the barns and homes of people that would fight back
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Stole food and livestock from the peaceful farmers
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Strategy was used to cripple the Southern Economy.
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Consisted of Total War- Fighting Everywhere.
Battles 1861
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April- Fort Sumter (SC)
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Lincoln Calls up troops after and NC
Secedes
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South Wins
July- Bull Run/ Manassas
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The Great Skedaddle (union retreat)
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South Wins
Battles: 1862
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March- Battle at Sea:
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Monitor and Merrimack (ironclads)
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North Takes New Orleans
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June: Battle of Seven Days (Peninsula Campaign)
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McClellan Retreats
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(draw)
South Wins
August: Second Battle of Bull Run
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Lee Decides to Attack the North
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South Wins
Battle: Antietam (Maryland)
Bloodiest day in American History
September 1862
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Over 10,000 dead
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McCelellan fired because he didn’t follow lee
into battle
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Lincoln needed a win to pass the Emancipation
Proclamation
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Win for the North
Battles 1863
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April- Chancellorsville (VA)
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**Stonewall Jackson is killed by friendly fire
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Lee: “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right”
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South wins
July-1-4 Gettysburg PA
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AS far North as Lee gets
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Pickett’s charge he wants to capture the hill
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TURNING POINT OF THE WAR
The Aftermath (Gettysburg)
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Grant wins in Vicksburg Mississippi
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Opens up the Mississippi River to the North (part
of the Anaconda Plan)
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July 4th 1863 – Vicksburg Surrenders
Gettysburg Address
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1864- March to the Sea
GRANT IS APPOINTED COMMANDER AND ORDERS
SHERMAN'S “MARCH TO THE SEA”
March to the Sea:
• Chattanooga TN  Savannah  Raleigh
• “Total War” 60 mile wide swath through the South,
everything destroyed in his path
• Burned Atlanta to the ground, November 1864
• Makes it to NC in 1865
• Extremely harsh to South Carolina
1865- BATTLE AT HAMPTON ROADS
• Grant takes Richmond in April
• Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse
• Lincoln Assassinated 5 days later.
Strategy for the Union
1. Suffocate the South with a Blockade
2. Liberate the slaves Creates economic crisis
3. Cut the Confederacy in half (Anaconda Plan)
4. Chop the Confederacy in pieces by sending troops through the
Carolina’s and Georgia (Sherman’s March)
5. Decapitate the Confederacy by taking Richmond
6. Fight Everywhere (Total War)
Legacies of the Civil War
1. Death to more than 600,000 People and damage of more than 15 million
2. A new Class of Millionaires
3. Betrayal of Blacks by Whites- Freed slaves thought they would be instantly better
and given land. Forced to rent land and remained in poverty
4. South Poor and bitter – Lost 2 billion worth of slaves
5. New Opportunities for Woman – Before 1 in 4 woman working, After 1 in 3
6. Victory of Industrialization over agriculture.