Download Battle of Bull Run

Objective: To examine the role of the navy and the battles of Bull Run
and Antietam.
Battle of Bull Run
Animation
· 1st Union attack on the Confederacy.
· The Confederates, led by Gen. Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson, won the battle.
* Battle showed each side that they
needed training.
* It also showed that the war would
be long and bloody.
July 21, 1861 - Ruins of the Stone Bridge over which
Northern forces retreated until it was blown up by a Rebel
shell adding to the panic of the retreat, with the Federals
returning to Washington as "a rain-soaked mob."
Battle of Bull Run
st
(1 Manassas), July, 1861
Lincoln sent 30,000
inexperienced soldiers
to fight at Bull Run.
Northern troops were
pushed back to D.C.
South won this battle but
“lost the war”.
WHY? Failed to capture
Washington, D.C.
Would never be so close to
Washington, D.C. again
Naval Action
· The Union blockade on Southern ports hurt the South.
· Therefore, the South created an ironclad ship called the
Merrimack to attack the Union navy.
• In response, the North created an ironclad ship called the
Monitor.
* Ironclad
ships
changed
naval
warfare
forever!
The U.S.S. Monitor was the first Union iron-clad ship. This
picture shows the deck and the turret of the U.S.S. Monitor.
USS Monitor in action with CSS Virginia, 9 March 1862
The Hunley – The world’s first submarine (Confederacy)
Illustration of the H.L. Hunley submarine
with its bow-mounted spar torpedo.
H. L. Hunley, suspended from a crane during its recovery
from Charleston Harbor, August 8, 2000.
Antietam
· The Confederate
General Robert E.
Lee decided to
attack the Union in
Maryland, on
Union soil, in
September of 1862.
· Over 23,000
Union and
Confederate troops
were killed or
wounded.
Dead Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Antietam
Lincoln with McClellan and staff after the Battle of Antietam. Notable
figures (from left) are McClellan; Lincoln; George Armstrong Custer.
President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the
general's tent near the Antietam battlefield, October 3, 1862.
Theater/Battles 1862
On July 4, 1863
30,000 Confederate troops
defending
Vicksburg surrendered their arms.
Grant captured 260
cannons, 60,000 standof-arms, and more than 2 million rounds of
ammunition.
Former
slaves celebrated Independence Day
for the first time.
4
days later, the Mississippi River was in the
hands of the Union army
Effectively cutting the
Confederacy in two.
•Grant
captures
Vicksburg,
splits the CSA
in half.
•USA controls
the Mississippi
River.
Vicksburg/Gettysburg