Download Highlights of the Civil War 1861-1865

Highlights of the Civil War
1861-1865
The Union Goes on the Offensive
after Ft. Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
July 21, 1861

First battle of the Civil War
Manassas Junction
 Picnic-ers
 MacDowell and “Stonewall” Jackson
 Billy Yanks versus Johnny Rebs
 A LONG WAY TO GO!

Antietam and the Emancipation
Proclamation, September 1862

Maryland under martial law by Lincoln


Border state and Washington D.C.
McClellan for the Union
Lee’s Battle Plans
 Too cautious
 Lee “retires the field” first

** EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION!!!
Anaconda Plan: Squeeze the
Confederacy like a snake!

Naval Blockade by the North


USS Monitor vs. the CSS Merrimac
Take the capital at Richmond, VA
Moved from Mobile, Alabama
 Jefferson Davis and State’s Rights


Split the Confederacy
Take the Mississippi (Grant and Farragut)
 Sherman’s “March to the Sea”

Chancellorsville, Virginia, April
1863

Jeb Stuart and incorrect intelligence


Loss of Stonewall Jackson


Cavalry ride around Union army
Killed by friendly fire
Lee’s Victory but…

Confederacy cannot take the losses
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
July 1863

Largest 3 Day Battle


Confederacy cannot take the losses
On Union Soil – Pennsylvania

Lee’s strategy to gain foreign aid
*** Turning point of the war!
 Gettysburg Address: Lincoln


Consecration of a cemetery
Siege of Vicksburg, July 1863

Control of the Mississippi


Bombardment of Vicksburg



Grant from the north and Farragut from New Orleans
Civilian population along with military, holds out
Condition of Vicksburg
Way open for Sherman’s “March to the Sea”


Path of total destruction, 60 miles wide
From Tennessee to Savannah, Georgia
Surrender at Appomattox,
April 9, 1865

Siege of Richmond
Grant accepts Lee surrender
 Confederate surrender their weapons and go
home
 Over 500,000 deaths: war, disease, “surgery”
 Lincoln assassinated April 14, 1865

 Andrew
Johnson takes over