The Civil War
... Lincoln’s Assassination i. Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the official end of the war. ii. Throughout the winter of 1864–1865, a group of Southern conspirators in Washington, D.C., had plotted to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war. iii. After several unsuccessful a ...
... Lincoln’s Assassination i. Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the official end of the war. ii. Throughout the winter of 1864–1865, a group of Southern conspirators in Washington, D.C., had plotted to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war. iii. After several unsuccessful a ...
Focus Questions
... 13. What made Lincoln a great president? Was it primarily his political leadership or his personal qualities and character? ...
... 13. What made Lincoln a great president? Was it primarily his political leadership or his personal qualities and character? ...
17-3 The North Wins
... rebel soldiers tried to dislodge them. At times, the air President Lincoln spoke at the seemed full of bullets. “The balls were whizzing so thick,” dedication of a cemetery in Gettysburg for the 3,500 soldiers said one Texan, “that it looked like a man could hold out buried there. His speech was a h ...
... rebel soldiers tried to dislodge them. At times, the air President Lincoln spoke at the seemed full of bullets. “The balls were whizzing so thick,” dedication of a cemetery in Gettysburg for the 3,500 soldiers said one Texan, “that it looked like a man could hold out buried there. His speech was a h ...
The North Wins
... After taking Savannah, Sherman moved north through the Carolinas seeking to meet up with Grant’s troops in Virginia. Since May 1864, Grant and his generals had been fighting savage battles against Lee’s forces. In battle after battle, Grant would attack, rest, then attack again, all the while moving ...
... After taking Savannah, Sherman moved north through the Carolinas seeking to meet up with Grant’s troops in Virginia. Since May 1864, Grant and his generals had been fighting savage battles against Lee’s forces. In battle after battle, Grant would attack, rest, then attack again, all the while moving ...
Union Campaigns Cripple the Confederacy
... worst defeat at the Battle of Cold Harbor in early June, just 10 miles northeast of Richmond. In only a few hours the Union army suffered 7,000 casualties. The battle delayed Grant’s plans to take the Confederate capital. Union forces had suffered twice as many casualties as the Confederates had, ye ...
... worst defeat at the Battle of Cold Harbor in early June, just 10 miles northeast of Richmond. In only a few hours the Union army suffered 7,000 casualties. The battle delayed Grant’s plans to take the Confederate capital. Union forces had suffered twice as many casualties as the Confederates had, ye ...
Library of Congress
... • Lee’s battle plans are discovered, showing his division of forces; McClellan does not act on info for 18 hours! • It is the bloodiest day of the war: 23,000 (2x the number of dead and wounded on D-Day) • Some consider Antietam the high water mark of the South’s chances for victory (vs. Gettysburg) ...
... • Lee’s battle plans are discovered, showing his division of forces; McClellan does not act on info for 18 hours! • It is the bloodiest day of the war: 23,000 (2x the number of dead and wounded on D-Day) • Some consider Antietam the high water mark of the South’s chances for victory (vs. Gettysburg) ...
Chapter 17-The Civil War
... A brilliant strategist, organizer, and trainer of troops during the American Civil War (18611865), General George McClellan was praised as a "young Napoleon," but his timidity on the battlefield caused President Abraham Lincoln to replace him as leader of the Union forces. ...
... A brilliant strategist, organizer, and trainer of troops during the American Civil War (18611865), General George McClellan was praised as a "young Napoleon," but his timidity on the battlefield caused President Abraham Lincoln to replace him as leader of the Union forces. ...
And So the Murderous Work Went On
... Mill, and particularly eager to destroy the wounded Union army, Lee pursued the Federal troops toward the James River. McClellan’s final stand occurred on a small plateau, approximately one mile north of the James River, known as Malvern Hill. Though not an impressively significant “hill,” being onl ...
... Mill, and particularly eager to destroy the wounded Union army, Lee pursued the Federal troops toward the James River. McClellan’s final stand occurred on a small plateau, approximately one mile north of the James River, known as Malvern Hill. Though not an impressively significant “hill,” being onl ...
The Road to Gettysburg
... McClellan stopped Lee’s Northern invasion, but failed to finish off Lee’s army, which retreated safely to Virginia. (so…what happened to McClellan?) ...
... McClellan stopped Lee’s Northern invasion, but failed to finish off Lee’s army, which retreated safely to Virginia. (so…what happened to McClellan?) ...
GettysburgTrailMaps
... furious. The Army of the Potomac’s commander had demanded that Washington authorize him to abandon Maryland Heights and transfer the 10,000 men guarding the mountain fortress at Harpers Ferry to the main army in Frederick, Md. After the War Department refused, Hooker, in a rage, offered his resignat ...
... furious. The Army of the Potomac’s commander had demanded that Washington authorize him to abandon Maryland Heights and transfer the 10,000 men guarding the mountain fortress at Harpers Ferry to the main army in Frederick, Md. After the War Department refused, Hooker, in a rage, offered his resignat ...
The American Nation
... McClellan laid siege to Yorktown as a preliminary to attacking Richmond. Johnston held Yorktown for a month, then retreated toward Richmond. Johnston was wounded in the Battle of Seven Pines and Lee halted the fighting. Lee took advantage of McClellan’s failure to move by attacking in the Se ...
... McClellan laid siege to Yorktown as a preliminary to attacking Richmond. Johnston held Yorktown for a month, then retreated toward Richmond. Johnston was wounded in the Battle of Seven Pines and Lee halted the fighting. Lee took advantage of McClellan’s failure to move by attacking in the Se ...
Chapter 11: The Civil War
... • Could control lower Mississippi River • Lincoln sends troops to help pro-Union gov’t stay in control of state ...
... • Could control lower Mississippi River • Lincoln sends troops to help pro-Union gov’t stay in control of state ...
They Led at Gettysburg, The Confederate and Union Generals
... Union rear even as Pickett’s Charge took place against the Union center. The Confederate cavalry instead was beaten back by Union cavalry in an action fought east of the main battlefield [see Blumberg’s variant in this issue for this action], Stuart, overall, was ineffective at Gettysburg, but like ...
... Union rear even as Pickett’s Charge took place against the Union center. The Confederate cavalry instead was beaten back by Union cavalry in an action fought east of the main battlefield [see Blumberg’s variant in this issue for this action], Stuart, overall, was ineffective at Gettysburg, but like ...
The Battle of Lewis`s Farm
... began a retreat that would lead them to surrender at Appomattox Court House. On March 29, in the opening moves of General Ulysses S. Grant’s spring offensive, General Philip Sheridan marched with the army’s cavalry followed by the V Corps toward Dinwiddie Court House to turn the right flank of Gener ...
... began a retreat that would lead them to surrender at Appomattox Court House. On March 29, in the opening moves of General Ulysses S. Grant’s spring offensive, General Philip Sheridan marched with the army’s cavalry followed by the V Corps toward Dinwiddie Court House to turn the right flank of Gener ...
Gettysburg
... First Day at Gettysburg by James Walker During the summer of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee proposed a daring invasion into Pennsylvania in hopes that it might force the Union to end the war. It proved to be a turning point, but not the one Lee anticipated. At Gettysburg, a series of battle ...
... First Day at Gettysburg by James Walker During the summer of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee proposed a daring invasion into Pennsylvania in hopes that it might force the Union to end the war. It proved to be a turning point, but not the one Lee anticipated. At Gettysburg, a series of battle ...
Battle of Wyse Fork
... Turn left on Neuse Road and take the immediate right into the parking lot of the small building complex. The Civil War Trails sign is at east end of the parking lot. The Howard House, located to the east and destroyed in the 1960’s, was the headquarters of Gen. Braxton Bragg. At this location on Mar ...
... Turn left on Neuse Road and take the immediate right into the parking lot of the small building complex. The Civil War Trails sign is at east end of the parking lot. The Howard House, located to the east and destroyed in the 1960’s, was the headquarters of Gen. Braxton Bragg. At this location on Mar ...
Little Round Top - A Sound Strategy, Inc.
... punch he planned to throw with his right. It worked at Manassas, and he believed it would work again. Lee ordered his “Old Warhorse,” Lt. General James Longstreet, to advance up the Emmitsburg Road, and, moving from south to north, roll up the Union left flank. Reporting to Longstreet was Major Ge ...
... punch he planned to throw with his right. It worked at Manassas, and he believed it would work again. Lee ordered his “Old Warhorse,” Lt. General James Longstreet, to advance up the Emmitsburg Road, and, moving from south to north, roll up the Union left flank. Reporting to Longstreet was Major Ge ...
SIOP Lesson Plan
... presentation of the events that happened here on July 1-3, 1863. The film will be pre-set to two different scenes, each portraying important parts of the battle. Showing the whole film would take more than three class periods and would be impractical, so I selected two important clips. Any teacher ...
... presentation of the events that happened here on July 1-3, 1863. The film will be pre-set to two different scenes, each portraying important parts of the battle. Showing the whole film would take more than three class periods and would be impractical, so I selected two important clips. Any teacher ...
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
... – May 8, 1864, the Confederates caught up with the Union army near Spotsylvania Court House. The fighting that took place over nearly two weeks is called the Battle of Spotsylvania. – In early June, the armies clashed again at the Battle of Cold Harbor, just eight miles from Richmond. ...
... – May 8, 1864, the Confederates caught up with the Union army near Spotsylvania Court House. The fighting that took place over nearly two weeks is called the Battle of Spotsylvania. – In early June, the armies clashed again at the Battle of Cold Harbor, just eight miles from Richmond. ...
Printable Topo Hike Map
... three-quarters of a mile southwest of here. The of Manassas inflicted casualties amounting to north and possible European recognition of center of his line rested in this area. The focal almost one-third of the 7,000 men engaged. the Confederate government. point of Jackson’s position was the bed of ...
... three-quarters of a mile southwest of here. The of Manassas inflicted casualties amounting to north and possible European recognition of center of his line rested in this area. The focal almost one-third of the 7,000 men engaged. the Confederate government. point of Jackson’s position was the bed of ...
EGE Exn oF TrrE Crun, Wrn
... to Virginia. Lincoln sent a message to General Meade ordering him to attack Lee's army before it crossed the Potomac River into Virginia. Like General McClellan, Meade waited too many days to attack. Lee's army escaped back into Virginia. Lee had lost more soldiers than the South's small population ...
... to Virginia. Lincoln sent a message to General Meade ordering him to attack Lee's army before it crossed the Potomac River into Virginia. Like General McClellan, Meade waited too many days to attack. Lee's army escaped back into Virginia. Lee had lost more soldiers than the South's small population ...
WV Commemorates 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
... Government of Virginia, a Union government to oppose the Confederate one in Richmond. In August, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee tried – and failed – to reclaim that part of Virginia, and by 1862 the conflict had shifted east. The First Campaign proved to be decisive: In 1863, the western counties un ...
... Government of Virginia, a Union government to oppose the Confederate one in Richmond. In August, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee tried – and failed – to reclaim that part of Virginia, and by 1862 the conflict had shifted east. The First Campaign proved to be decisive: In 1863, the western counties un ...
3 No End in Sight
... After Grant’s river victories, Albert S. Johnston, Confederate commander on the Western front, ordered a retreat to Corinth, Mississippi. Grant followed. By early April, Grant’s troops had reached Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. There he waited for more troops from Nashville. Johnston, how ...
... After Grant’s river victories, Albert S. Johnston, Confederate commander on the Western front, ordered a retreat to Corinth, Mississippi. Grant followed. By early April, Grant’s troops had reached Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. There he waited for more troops from Nashville. Johnston, how ...
civilwar-1-2
... – Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri would have doubled the manufacturing capabilities of the South and increase by more than half the amount of horses and mules. – Ohio River flowed through the North of Kentucky and would have allowed supplies transported through tributaries the Cumberland and Tennessee. ...
... – Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri would have doubled the manufacturing capabilities of the South and increase by more than half the amount of horses and mules. – Ohio River flowed through the North of Kentucky and would have allowed supplies transported through tributaries the Cumberland and Tennessee. ...
Ch 20-21 w answers
... Gettysburg and Vicksburg- two battles that allow the North to win the CW • Vicksburg- N. controls Miss. River, splits S. in half – Grant- becomes the Gen. Lincoln needs to win the war ...
... Gettysburg and Vicksburg- two battles that allow the North to win the CW • Vicksburg- N. controls Miss. River, splits S. in half – Grant- becomes the Gen. Lincoln needs to win the war ...
Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside. The Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.Burnside's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-November and race to the Confederate capital of Richmond before Lee's army could stop him. Bureaucratic delays prevented Burnside from receiving the necessary pontoon bridges in time and Lee moved his army to block the crossings. When the Union army was finally able to build its bridges and cross under fire, urban combat in the city resulted on December 11–12. Union troops prepared to assault Confederate defensive positions south of the city and on a strongly fortified ridge just west of the city known as Marye's Heights.On December 13, the ""grand division"" of Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin was able to pierce the first defensive line of Confederate Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson to the south, but was finally repulsed. Burnside ordered the grand divisions of Maj. Gens. Edwin V. Sumner and Joseph Hooker to make multiple frontal assaults against Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's position on Marye's Heights, all of which were repulsed with heavy losses. On December 15, Burnside withdrew his army, ending another failed Union campaign in the Eastern Theater.