Notes
... - 1862: opened up to black recruits - 186,000 African Ams – many former slaves – joined the Union army - Another 30,000 joined the U. navy A) The Massachusetts 54th Regiment - Mass. = one of the first states to organize black regiments - Most Famous: 54th Massachusetts Infantry - commanded by Col. R ...
... - 1862: opened up to black recruits - 186,000 African Ams – many former slaves – joined the Union army - Another 30,000 joined the U. navy A) The Massachusetts 54th Regiment - Mass. = one of the first states to organize black regiments - Most Famous: 54th Massachusetts Infantry - commanded by Col. R ...
The Civil War - Paulding County Schools
... • Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, a U.S. military post at Charleston, South Carolina. • The Union forces surrendered very early the next morning. • President Abraham Lincoln said the flag had been fired on, and war must be declared. • The Civil War lasted four years. ...
... • Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, a U.S. military post at Charleston, South Carolina. • The Union forces surrendered very early the next morning. • President Abraham Lincoln said the flag had been fired on, and war must be declared. • The Civil War lasted four years. ...
Chapter 11 Section 3 Notes
... the Union guns stopped returning fire. Actually, the Union artillery commander had ceased fire only to save ammunition. Now, however, Northern soldiers on Cemetery Ridge saw nearly 15,000 Confederates, formed in a line a mile long and three rows deep, coming toward them. ...
... the Union guns stopped returning fire. Actually, the Union artillery commander had ceased fire only to save ammunition. Now, however, Northern soldiers on Cemetery Ridge saw nearly 15,000 Confederates, formed in a line a mile long and three rows deep, coming toward them. ...
The First Minnesota and the Battle of Gettysburg
... Companies C and F had been detached for duty elsewhere and the regiment numbered only 262 on the field. Compelled to buy time until Union reinforcements could fill the breach, Hancock galloped up to Colvill and ordered the Minnesotans to “Charge those lines!” The seriousness of the situation was ins ...
... Companies C and F had been detached for duty elsewhere and the regiment numbered only 262 on the field. Compelled to buy time until Union reinforcements could fill the breach, Hancock galloped up to Colvill and ordered the Minnesotans to “Charge those lines!” The seriousness of the situation was ins ...
Cornell Notes - Jessamine County Schools
... Chapter 20 Girding For War: The North and the South Brothers’ Blood and Border Blood pages 436-438 The slave states that remained in the Union – Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia after this pro-union portion of Virginia split and formed a new state – were the “crucial Border S ...
... Chapter 20 Girding For War: The North and the South Brothers’ Blood and Border Blood pages 436-438 The slave states that remained in the Union – Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia after this pro-union portion of Virginia split and formed a new state – were the “crucial Border S ...
Lincoln Faces a Crisis - Morris Plains School District
... • Lincoln supported freeing slaves if it would help the North win the war. – Emancipation = the freeing of slaves. • Lincoln had three concerns regarding emancipation: – Northern prejudice against African Americans might weaken northern support for the war. – Some northerners might consider that sla ...
... • Lincoln supported freeing slaves if it would help the North win the war. – Emancipation = the freeing of slaves. • Lincoln had three concerns regarding emancipation: – Northern prejudice against African Americans might weaken northern support for the war. – Some northerners might consider that sla ...
The Furnace of Civil War
... Blacks Battle Bondage Black enlistees accepted as manpower ran low – 180,000 served, most from slave states, with 2 full regiments from MA – Fought in 500 engagements, high casualties – Not recognized by CSA as POWs, but as slaves in rebellion ...
... Blacks Battle Bondage Black enlistees accepted as manpower ran low – 180,000 served, most from slave states, with 2 full regiments from MA – Fought in 500 engagements, high casualties – Not recognized by CSA as POWs, but as slaves in rebellion ...
Civil War - apush-xl
... punish the South for its long history of cruelty toward blacks abolish slavery in the United States preserve the Union, threatened by secession of numerous southern states end economic hardship caused by overproduction of southern cotton ...
... punish the South for its long history of cruelty toward blacks abolish slavery in the United States preserve the Union, threatened by secession of numerous southern states end economic hardship caused by overproduction of southern cotton ...
The Furnace of Civil War
... Blacks Battle Bondage Black enlistees accepted as manpower ran low – 180,000 served, most from slave states, with 2 full regiments from MA – Fought in 500 engagements, high casualties – Not recognized by CSA as POWs, but as slaves in rebellion ...
... Blacks Battle Bondage Black enlistees accepted as manpower ran low – 180,000 served, most from slave states, with 2 full regiments from MA – Fought in 500 engagements, high casualties – Not recognized by CSA as POWs, but as slaves in rebellion ...
Civil War TEST STUDY GUIDE (ANSWER KEY)
... The Confederacy relied on enslaved African Americans to raise crops and provide labor for the army. Many enslaved African Americans fled to the Union army as it approached and some fought for the Union. Some free African Americans felt their limited rights could best be protected by supporting the C ...
... The Confederacy relied on enslaved African Americans to raise crops and provide labor for the army. Many enslaved African Americans fled to the Union army as it approached and some fought for the Union. Some free African Americans felt their limited rights could best be protected by supporting the C ...
File
... across Georgia to the city of ______________ on the Atlantic Coast. From there, the army marched into _______________________. People saw an end in sight for the war and ___________________ Lincoln. On April 9, 1865, Lee __________________ to Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. ____________ ...
... across Georgia to the city of ______________ on the Atlantic Coast. From there, the army marched into _______________________. People saw an end in sight for the war and ___________________ Lincoln. On April 9, 1865, Lee __________________ to Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. ____________ ...
Confederate Engineers in the American Civil War Engineer: The
... known as Cold Harbor. General Robert E. Lee had lost the crossroads while fighting General Grant's forces during the preceding days. Early on 2 June, Lee's soldiers began to erect a defensive works. Although Grant wanted to attack immediately and roll over Lee's forces before they could complete the ...
... known as Cold Harbor. General Robert E. Lee had lost the crossroads while fighting General Grant's forces during the preceding days. Early on 2 June, Lee's soldiers began to erect a defensive works. Although Grant wanted to attack immediately and roll over Lee's forces before they could complete the ...
All is Fair: Women and the American Civil War
... Belle began her career at the age of seventeen, when she shot a Union soldier for using offensive language when speaking to her mother. Instead of punishment, she was absolved of guilt by Union officers who agreed that a lady had a right not to hear offensive language. Less than a week later, Union ...
... Belle began her career at the age of seventeen, when she shot a Union soldier for using offensive language when speaking to her mother. Instead of punishment, she was absolved of guilt by Union officers who agreed that a lady had a right not to hear offensive language. Less than a week later, Union ...
The Road to Gettysburg
... The approach from the east was rugged and well-guarded. The Confederates had constructed a line of defense consisting of nine major forts connected by a continuous line of trenches and rifle pits. ...
... The approach from the east was rugged and well-guarded. The Confederates had constructed a line of defense consisting of nine major forts connected by a continuous line of trenches and rifle pits. ...
The Furnace of Civil War,
... ___2. The Emancipation Proclamation was more important for its political effects on the North and Europe than for its freeing of large numbers of slaves. ___3. The Union's greatest military breakthroughs came on the eastern front, and this paved the way for later successes in the West. ___4. The Ba ...
... ___2. The Emancipation Proclamation was more important for its political effects on the North and Europe than for its freeing of large numbers of slaves. ___3. The Union's greatest military breakthroughs came on the eastern front, and this paved the way for later successes in the West. ___4. The Ba ...
Question 1
... b. Correct answer. Had Lee failed, the Union would have been quickly restored with slavery intact. However, McClellan’s defeat for the Union in the Peninsula Campaign assured that the war would continue until the South was squashed and slavery was wiped out. As Lincoln put it, the rebels “cannot ex ...
... b. Correct answer. Had Lee failed, the Union would have been quickly restored with slavery intact. However, McClellan’s defeat for the Union in the Peninsula Campaign assured that the war would continue until the South was squashed and slavery was wiped out. As Lincoln put it, the rebels “cannot ex ...
Civil War Project - River Mill Academy
... Poorly trained troops on both sides The North realized after this battle that the war would not be easy and would not be over soon, as they originally thought. Confederate Victory ...
... Poorly trained troops on both sides The North realized after this battle that the war would not be easy and would not be over soon, as they originally thought. Confederate Victory ...
01-13-2016 ppt - Cobb Learning
... the war, many Confederate soldiers wore their own clothes into battle. Eventually the uniform consisted of a waist length grey coat and light blue trousers. ...
... the war, many Confederate soldiers wore their own clothes into battle. Eventually the uniform consisted of a waist length grey coat and light blue trousers. ...
Section 3 - History With Mr. Wallace
... • To distract Confederates while he carried out this difficult task of approaching Vicksburg, Grant ordered Colonel Benjamin Grierson to take his troops on a raid through Mississippi. ...
... • To distract Confederates while he carried out this difficult task of approaching Vicksburg, Grant ordered Colonel Benjamin Grierson to take his troops on a raid through Mississippi. ...
Civil War from 1863
... To: General R. E. Lee, Commanding CSA The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion ...
... To: General R. E. Lee, Commanding CSA The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion ...
Unit V notes
... forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion t ...
... forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion t ...
The Civil War
... odds were not in his favor • Abraham Lincoln gets reelected as president after Union restored faith in him by his order of taking control of the Gulf of Mexico, which was a success • Lincoln stresses peace with all nations in his Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865 ...
... odds were not in his favor • Abraham Lincoln gets reelected as president after Union restored faith in him by his order of taking control of the Gulf of Mexico, which was a success • Lincoln stresses peace with all nations in his Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865 ...
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... Women Aid the War Effort • Many women run farms, take over “men’s” work in factories, offices • Work for soldier relief agencies and as nurses • In North, Dorothea Dix is leader of about 3,000 nurses • Women serve as spies, including: - Harriet Tubman for North - Belle Boyd for South ...
... Women Aid the War Effort • Many women run farms, take over “men’s” work in factories, offices • Work for soldier relief agencies and as nurses • In North, Dorothea Dix is leader of about 3,000 nurses • Women serve as spies, including: - Harriet Tubman for North - Belle Boyd for South ...
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, 1861–1865
... Lee’s turn to defensive tactics in the last year of the war forced Grant into an offensive strategy that caused enormous casualties in direct frontal assaults on Confederate lines. 14. T F Lincoln’s assassination added to northern bitterness and determination to punish the South. 15. T F In terms of ...
... Lee’s turn to defensive tactics in the last year of the war forced Grant into an offensive strategy that caused enormous casualties in direct frontal assaults on Confederate lines. 14. T F Lincoln’s assassination added to northern bitterness and determination to punish the South. 15. T F In terms of ...
Battle of Fort Pillow
The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with a massacre of Federal troops (most of them African American) attempting to surrender, by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, ""Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history.""