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Chapter 11
The Civil War
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter
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Situated in the middle of the Charleston Port
It was Union occupied
Jefferson Davis sent telegram to Lincoln
Lincoln in a pickle
Lincoln responds
Davis attacks the fort and wins
After the Battle of Fort Sumter
• Virginia
secedes
Confederate Strategy
• Defensive
Campaign
• Violation of this
strategy cost
them the war
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• 1st real
bloodshed of
war
• Stonewall
Jackson
Battle of Bull Run
George McClellan Army of the
Potomac
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Shiloh
Major Confederate Leaders
Robert E Lee
George Pickett
Pete Longstreet
Antietam
Antietam
Antietam
Antietam
Graveyard at Antietam
Antietam was the single bloodiest
day in the history of the United
States
Emancipation Proclamation
• Did Not free all slaves
• Only those in the deep south states who
seceded from the Union
• Border states still had slaves
• The document was more symbolic than
effective
Conscription
• North began to draft Young men into the
military
• Increase size of military
• Overwhelm the south
• Solved the problem of dissention
Soldier’s Life
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Little food
Little water
No provisions
No place to
sleep
• Very hard life
Civil War Medicine
• Clara Barton
• War Nurse
• Red Cross
Civil War Hospital
Civil War Medical Kit
Amputated Legs
Prison System of the South and
North
Andersonville
Creek that runs through prison
Prisoner found
at
Andersonville
33,000 Prisoners on 26 acres of
land
Gettysburg
• Bloodiest battle in the history of the United
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52,000 men died or wounded in three days
Three day battle
Turning point of war
South abandoned their strategy
Day 1
• John Buford
• Skirmish Between
Buford and soldiers
moving into
Gettysburg to get
shoes
• Union Holds off the
confederate attack
Day 2
• Lee orders Longstreet
to attack the Union
positions
• Battle of Little Round
Top
• General Sam Hood led
the attack on Little
round top
Union Counter attack
• Joshua Chamberlain
Led Union Forces
• Held off Confederates
until they ran out of
ammo
• Chamberlain ordered a
bayonet charge down
the hill at the rebels
and caught them off
guard
Little Round Top
Day 3
• Longstreet attacked
the center of the union
Lines
• Pickett’s charge
• The rebels almost
broke the Union Lines
• But had to retreat and
would never again
gain the momentum
Gettysburg Address
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman’s March to the sea
Atlanta Ammunition depot
Atlanta Before
Sherman
Atlanta Slave Auction
Grant and Lee met at Appomattox
Courthouse to sign peace agreement
Legacy of the War
• National Bank
• War Costs – 360,00 Union Soldiers Died
260,000 Confederate soldiers died
The Combined cost was about $33
Billion Dollars
• “Thirteenth Amendment”
• John Wilkes Booth – Assassinated Abraham Lincoln