Download THE CIVIL WAR : YEAR BY YEAR

THE CIVIL WAR : YEAR BY YEAR
(1861-1865)
1861 – A slow start
• In the East (Atlantic Ocean)
• The C.S.A. took over Ft. Sumter in South
Carolina
• The U.S.A. (UNION) and C.S.A.
(CONFEDERACY) met at Manassas
Junction, VA for the 1st Battle of Bull Run.
The Union lost.
• The Union Navy used the Anaconda strategy
to blockade all Confederate shipping.
The Battle of the Capitols
Washington D.C.
Richmond,
Virginia
1st Bull Run
The Anaconda Strategy
The
Blockade
1862 – The Confederacy
holds strong
• In the East (Atlantic Ocean):
• General McClellan led the Union to
invade the C.S.A. and try to capture
Richmond. The Peninsular Campaign
was ended when Confederate Generals
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
defeated the Union Army.
1862 – The Confederacy
holds strong
• In the East (Atlantic Ocean):
• Robert E. Lee led the C.S.A. Army into
Maryland (Union) to attack Washington
D.C. The Union defeated him at
Antietam. 22,000 were wounded in
one day. The C.S.A. retreated.
Antietam
• The battle of Antietam is the bloodiest day on
American Soil. More people died on Sept. 17,
1862 than any other single day in America.
Fighting in 1862
Antietam
Washington D.C.
The Peninsular
Campaign
Richmond,
Virginia
1862 – In the West
• David Farragut used
the navy to capture
New Orleans.
• Ulysses S. Grant
attacked from
Tennessee. He
captured several forts
and pushed down the
Mississippi River.
1863
• Lincoln Delivers the:
– Emancipation
Proclamation
– Gettysburg Address
1863 – In the East
• From May to July, Lee
marched the C.S.A. army
into Union territory. The
Union Army, under
General Meade, followed.
They met in Gettysburg,
PA. From July 1-July 3
they fought. The South
lost and Lee retreated.
Gettysburg – July 1-3, 1863
Gettysburg
Washington D.C.
Richmond,
Virginia
1863 – In the West
• In the West - At
Vicksburg, Mississippi
General Grant took
control of the
Mississippi.
• 1864 - Lincoln
appointed Grant
commander of the
Union Army.
1864
• In the East –
Grant marched
from Washington
D.C. straight to
Richmond VA.
On May 3 he
captured
Richmond.
• In the West – General
Sherman led the Union
army East from the
Mississippi River to the
Atlantic Ocean. (the
March to the Sea) He
marched north up the
coast burning
Savannah, Charleston
and Atlanta.
1865 – Surrender
• On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee
surrenders the C.S.A. Army to Ulysses
S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse,
Virginia.
Fighting in 1864 & 1865
Washington D.C.
Appomattox
Richmond,
Virginia
... we here highly
resolve that these
dead shall not have
died in vain-- that this
nation, under God,
shall have a new birth
of freedom--and that
government of the
people, by the
people, for the
people, shall not
perish from the earth.