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Chapter 11 The Civil War Fort Sumter Fort Sumter • • • • • • 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 st 1 • 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 • • • • 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 • • • • States 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
