Transcript The Civil War

The
Civil War
"I would save the Union. I would save it the
shortest way under the Constitution. The
sooner the national authority can be
restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the
Union as it was.'“ – Abraham Lincoln
All we ask is to be let alone."
-Jefferson Davis
The Union & Confederacy in 1861
Who Has the Better Chance of
Winning the War?
The Union?
OR
The Confederacy?
Rating the North & the South
Railroad Lines, 1860
Resources: North & the South
Men Present for Duty
in the Civil War
Soldiers Occupations:
North/South Combined
Slave/Free States Population,
1861
Who Led the Confederacy?
?
The Leaders of the Confederacy
President Jefferson
Davis
VP Alexander Stevens
The Confederate White House
The Confederate Seal
MOTTO  “With God As Our Vindicator”
The Confederate Generals
James Longstreet
“Stonewall” Jackson
Nathan Bedford
Forrest
Robert E. Lee
George Pickett
Jeb Stuart
Who Led the Union?
?
The Leaders of the Union
VP Hannibal Hamlin
VP Andrew Johnson
President Abraham Lincoln
Lincolns Generals
Winfield Scott
Joseph Hooker
Ambrose Burnside
George McClellan
Irwin McDowell
George Meade
What did the Confederate and
Union troops wear?
?
Union Uniforms
Confederate Uniforms
What Was the Union’s War
Plan?
?
Overview
of
the North's
Civil War
Strategy:
Anaconda
Plan
The Anaconda Plan
The Union’s Anaconda Plan
1. Blockade the coastline
2. Split the South into two by taking the towns
along the Mississippi River
3. Capture the Confederate capital of
Richmond
What were the major battles of the
Civil War?
?
The Progress of War: 1861-1865
Battle of Fort Sumter
First battle of the Civil War
When South Carolina seceded in 1860 they believed that
all South Carolina land, including military forts, should be
theirs and not the Union’s.
One fort, Fort Sumter, guarded one of the South’s most
important seaports.
Union troops held the fort until supplies got too low for
them to fight.
The Confederates fired on Fort Sumter on April 12,
1861.
After 34 hours, Union troops were forced to surrender
because they were out of supplies. The Civil War had
begun!
April 12-13 1861.
Fort Sumter with the Stars and
Bars Flying High after the
Confederate Victory
After the Battle of Fort Sumter, four more Southern states seceded
from the Union.
Battle of Bull Run
(1st Manassas)
July, 1861
The Battle of the Ironclads,
March, 1862
The Monitor vs.
the Merrimac
Building Ironclads
Damage on the Deck of the Monitor
War in the East: 1861-1862
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest Single Day of the War
September 17, 1862
23,000 casualties
The War in
the West, 1863:
Vicksburg
The Road to Gettysburg: 1863
Gettysburg Casualties
Gettysburg Battlefield
1963 Gettysburg Battlefield
July 1863: Alfred R Waud,
special artist for Harper's
Weekly magazine,
sketching the Gettysburg
battlefield, Pennsylvania.
Gettysburg Address
"Four score and seven
years ago our fathers
brought forth on this
continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the
proposition that all men
are created equal."
-- November 19, 1863 Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address
Sherman's
March
to the
Sea
through
Georgia,
1864
The Final Virginia Campaign:
1864-1865
Effects of the War off
the Battlefield
The North Initiates
the Draft, 1863
Recruiting Irish Immigrants in NYC
Recruiting Blacks in NYC
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)
FYI: The movie Gangs of New York are based on
these riots.
Inflation in the South
Surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
The End of the War
What was the
Emancipation
Proclamation?
The
Emancipation
Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln
during the Civil War.
It declared that on September 22, 1862 the freedom of all slaves in
the Confederate states that did not return to Union control by
January 1, 1863.
The Emancipation Proclamation was widely attacked at the time as
freeing only the slaves over which the Union had no power, but in
practice, it committed the Union to ending slavery, which was
controversial in the North.
It first directly affected only those slaves that had already escaped to
the Union side, but as the Union armies conquered the
Confederacy, thousands of slaves were freed each day until nearly
all (an estimated 4 million) were freed by July of 1865.
Emancipation in 1863
African Americans
Soldiers in the Civil
War
African-American Recruiting Poster
The Famous 54th Massachusetts
FYI: The movie Glory is based on
the 54th regiment
African-Americans
in Civil War Battles
Black Troops Freeing Slaves
Effects of the War
The Human Costs
of the Civil War
Casualties on Both Sides
Civil War Casualties
in Comparison to Other Wars
Bibliography
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