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Civil War Begins
Fort Sumter
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Confederation took Fort Sumter without
much of a fight
Lincoln did not defend nor abandon Fort
Sumter, he just sent food for the hungry
men
Union and Confederate Forces Clash
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After Sumter fell, Lincoln called for
volunteers
Along the Upper Southern states, people
were not willing to volunteer
Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN.
(April 1864)
Nathan Bedford Forrest
(Captured Fort Pillow)
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262 African-Americans
295 white Union
soldiers.
Ordered black soldiers
murdered after they
surrendered! [many
white soldiers killed as
well]
Became the first Grand
Wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan after the war
There They Go!!!!!!!!
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In April and May, Virginia, Arkansas, North
Carolina, and Tennessee seceded
They became part of the Confederacy
Strengths and Strategies
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The North and South were unevenly
matched
The north had more factories, more people,
greater food production, more railroads,
and more first rate generals
North’s Three Part Plan
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The navy would blockade Southern ports,
so they could neither export cotton, nor
import much needed manufactured goods
Union riverboats and armies would move
down the Mississippi River and split the
confederacy in two
Union armies would capture the
Confederate Capital at Richmond, Virginia
Bull Run
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Near a small creek 25 miles away from
Washington D.C.
“There stands Jackson like a stone wall”
Famous Quote for General Jackson that sis
not let up on the Union
He became known as “Stonewall Jackson”
The South won
Battle of Bull Run
(1st Manassas)
July, 1861
The Confederate Seal
Ulysses S. Grant
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Brave and decisive military commander
After 11 days on the job he captured two
Confederate Forts
While Grant pushed South, by ship General
Farragut captured New Orleans, dividing
the Confederate in two
The Yankees Are Coming!
Leaders of the Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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Robert E. Lee
Confederate White House
Battle of Antietam
“Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
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September 17. 1862
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23,000 casualties
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United Streaming. Real player video
Here's hopin
But your way out of service
Emancipation Proclamation
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As Jefferson Davis’s Confederacy
struggled to gain foreign recognition,
abolitionist grew in the north
Because he was winning, he could use the
confederates resources, so he did…. To
free them! (Slaves were the resources)
Emancipation in 1863
Emancipation Proclamation
The Southern View of the
Proclamation
African American Recruiting Poster
Famous 54th Massachusetts
African American battles
Black Troops Freeing Slaves
African Americans
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Although African Americans made up of
only 1% of the Northern population, by
wars end about 18,000 African Americans
fought for the Union
That’s about 10%
They suffered from discrimination
Soldiers Suffer on Both Sides
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Unhealthy conditions as filthy surrounding
Limited diet
Inadequate medical care
Diarrhea was common
In the 1860’s the technology of killing had
outrun the technology of medical care
Union Prison Camp
at Andersonville, GA
Union Survivors
Burying the Dead
Prison Camps
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Confederate camps were overcrowded and
unsanitary
The south lacked food and canvas tents
The north had enough to eat but did not
provide heat
Many confederate soldiers died of
phnemonia
Women
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Women contributed as nurses
Almost 3,000 in the North
One was Clara Barton who later founded
the Red Cross