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Slide 1
The Civil War
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Fort Sumter
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First Civil War Battle
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This presentation will share the major battles of
the Civil War, a war which lasted from 1861 to
1865.
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The first battle of the Civil War occurred on April
12, 1861, when the first shot was hurled over
Fort Sumter, at the entrance to the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina. Union troops were
forced to leave the Fort immediately, and the
United States flag would not be raised again at
Fort Sumter until February 18, 1865. The fort
was not of military importance, but it was a
symbol to both the north and the south.
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Here is an image depicting the first shorts fired at
Fort Sumter.
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Slide 4
The First Battle at Bull Run
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The First Battle at Bull Run
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The First Battle at Bull Run was also known by
Confederate forces as First Manassas. It was
fought in Prince William County, Virginia, near
the city of Manassas, and was the first major
land battle of the Civil War. It was supposed to
be short, and end the war; volunteer soldiers
lined up in colorful, clean uniforms waiting for the
war to begin, and people actually brought picnic
baskets and sat on hillsides as the troops
battled. After ten hours of fighting, the Union
troops retreated to Washington. 460 of their men
were killed, 1124 wounded, and 1312 missing or
captured. For the Confederacy, 387 were killed,
1582 wounded, and 13 missing. The Northern
public was shocked by the unexpected defeat of
their army when an easy victory had been
expected. In the South, there was little public
celebration as everyone realized that despite
their victory, the greater battles that would
inevitably come would mean greater losses for
their side as well. Both sides quickly came to
realize the war would be longer and more brutal
than they had imagined.
Notes:
An image of how the First Battle of Bull Run
looked.
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Slide 6
The Battle of Shiloh
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The Battle of Shiloh
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The Battle of Antietam
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The Battle of Shiloh occurred on April 6 and 7,
1862 in southwestern Tennessee. It was also
known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing and as
the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, causing
more than 23,500 men to be killed or missing.
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In the Battle of Shiloh, Union Army Major
General Ulysses S. Grant moved his troops via
the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and
camped there; many of his troops camped at
Pittsburgh Landing around a small log church
named Shiloh. Confederate forces led by
Generals Albert Sidney Johnson and P.G.T.
Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant,
and during the first day the Confederates
achieved success. However, on the second day,
the Union forces defeated them.
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The Battle of Antietam occurred on September
17, 1862 and was also known as the Battle of
Sharpsburg because it occurred near
Sharpsburg, Maryland. After pursuing
Confederate General Robert E. Lee into
Maryland, Union Army Major General George B.
McClellan launched attacks on Lee’s army, in
defense positions behind Antietam Creek.
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The Battle of Antietam
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Slide 10
The Emancipation Proclamation
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Continuing with the Battle of Antietam, it was the
first major battle in the Civil War to take place on
Union soil. There were ultimately about 23,000
casualties.
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This is a pretty dense slide, so let me go over it
with you. On September 22, 1862, just five days
after the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln
announced that he would issue a formal
emancipation of all slaves in any state of the
Confederate States of America that did not return
to the Union control by January 1, 1863. None
returned. Lincoln signed and issued the order
that day – January 1 – and it took effect
everywhere except in those locations where the
Union had already mostly regained control. The
Proclamation did many things, and not all of
them were positive. First, it made abolition a
central goal of the war. Second, it absolutely
outraged white Southerners who already saw the
Civil War as a race war. Third, it angered some
northern Democrats. Fourth, it energized antislavery forces. Fifth, and this is one that often is
not thought of, since it refers to overseas, but the
Emancipation Proclamation also weakened
forces in Europe that wanted to intervene to help
the Confederacy.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
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The Battle of Gettysburg
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The Battle of Vicksburg
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The next major battle was the Battle of
Gettysburg. It began on July 1, 1863 and ended
on July 3. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate troops
fought against General George Meade’s Union
army in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Meade’s army won, and this victory ended Lee’s
invasion of the North. Yes, Meade lost over 70%
of his men, but 4,000 Confederate soldiers were
captured. Combined, the total death toll was
between 46,000 and 51,000.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in
the war! After Gettysburg, Lee’s army conducted
no more strategic offensives in 1864 and 1865 his army merely reacted to the initiative of
Ulysses S. Grant.
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In May and June of 1863, Ulysses S. Grant’s
armies converged on Vicksburg, Mississippi,
entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen.
John Pemberton. On July 4, seeing no other
option, Vicksburg surrendered.
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Slide 14
The Battle of Vicksburg
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
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With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital
stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy
was effectively split in half. Grant’s successes in
the West boosted his reputation and ultimately
led to his appointment as General-in-Chief of the
Union armies.
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While Grant commanded the Union armies,
General William Tecumseh Sherman led federal
forces in the West. On November 15, 1864, in
perhaps the boldest act of the war, he led an
army of 62,000 men on an overland march to
Savannah, Georgia - cutting himself off from his
line of supply and sustaining his army on the
land. He wrote: “The utter destruction of
[Georgia’s] roads, houses and people will cripple
their military resources ... I can make Georgia
howl!” Encountering little organized opposition,
Sherman took Savannah on December 21, 1864,
and later turned north for the Carolinas, covering
450 miles in 50 days. The results of this march
justified Sherman’s strategic expectations and,
together with Grant’s victories in Virginia,
destroyed the Confederacy’s ability to carry on in
the war.
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How Did the War End?
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With his army surrounded and his men weak and
exhausted, Confederate General Robert E. Lee
realized he had no choice but to surrender. After
a series of notes between him and Union
General Ulysses S. Grant, they agreed to meet
on April 6, 1865 at the house of Wilmer McLean
in the village of Appomattox Courthouse,
Virginia. The meeting lasted approximately two
and a half hours, and at its conclusion, the
bloodiest conflict in the nation’s history neared its
end.
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