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Civil War 1861-1865 Confederates Fire on Fort Sumter • Fort Sumter—Union outpost in Charleston harbor • Confederates demand surrender of Fort Sumter Lincoln’s Dilemma • Reinforcing fort by force would lead rest of slave states to secede • Evacuating fort would legitimize Confederacy, endanger Union • Lincoln does not reinforce or evacuate, just sends food • For South, no action would damage sovereignty of Confederacy • Jefferson Davis chooses to turn peaceful secession into war fires on Sumter April 12, 1861 Virginia Secedes • Fort Sumter is a victory for the CSA • Fall of Fort Sumter unites North; volunteers rush to enlist • Virginia unwilling to fight South; secedes from Union - antislavery western counties secede from VA Union and Confederate Strategies • Union advantages: soldiers, factories, food, railroads • Confederate advantages: cotton profits, generals, motivation • Anaconda plan: Union strategy to conquer South - blockade Southern ports - divide Confederacy in two in west - capture Richmond, Confederate capital • Confederate strategy: defense, invade North if opportunity arises st 1 Battles • Bull Run/Manassas—first battle, unexpected; Confederate victory • Thomas J. Jackson called Stonewall Jackson for firm stand in battle • After Bull Run, Lincoln calls for 1 million additional soldiers • Appoints General George McClellan to lead Army of the Potomac st 1 Battles- Continued • Shiloh- March 1862, Confederate troops surprise Union soldiers • Grant counterattacks; Confederates retreat; thousands dead, wounded • Shiloh teaches preparation needed, Confederacy vulnerable in West A Revolution in Warfare • New ironclad ships instrumental in Union victories (splinter wooden ships, withstand cannon, resist burning) • March 1862, North’s Monitor, South’s Merrimack fight to a draw • Rifles more accurate, faster loading, fire more rounds than muskets • Minié ball (more destructive bullet), grenades, land mines are used • Fighting from trenches, barricades new advantage in infantry attacks The War for the Capitals “On to Richmond” • McClellan waits to attack Richmond; drills troops for 5 months • Spring 1862, Robert E. Lee takes command of Southern army • Lee, McClellan fight Seven Days’ Battle; Union leaves Richmond area Antietam • Lee wins Second Battle of Bull Run; marches into Maryland • Lee, McClellan clash at Antietam — bloodiest single-day battle • Battle a standoff; Confederates retreat; McClellan does not pursue - Lincoln fires McClellan / appoints Grant Sunken Road Emancipation Proclamation Standard: SSUSH9-e: Describe the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation • Read pg. 347- “Proclaiming Emancipation – In which states were slaves Emancipated? – In which states were slaves not Emancipated? – What were the effects of Emancipation on the Union and Confederate Armies? Lincoln’s View of Slavery • Federal government has no power to abolish slavery where it exists • Army can emancipate slaves who labor for Confederacy • Emancipation discourages Britain from supporting the South • Emancipation Proclamation Standard: SSUSH9-e: Describe the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation - issued by Lincoln in 1863 - frees slaves behind Confederate lines - does not apply to areas occupied by Union or slave states in Union Reactions to the Proclamation Standard: SSUSH9-e: Describe the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation • gives war high moral purpose • Free blacks welcome ability to fight • South becomes more determined to preserve way of life • Compromise no longer possible Gettysburg Standard: SSUSH9-d: Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and the Battle of Atlanta. • July 1st-3rd, 1863 • 3 day battle that cripples the South • Huge Battle: Involved 165,000 soldiers • Turning point of the war • 2nd & 3rd days are the most intense: - Pickett's Charge- Southern charge up a hill that fails. 3rd Day of Gettysburg Results of Gettysburg Standard: SSUSH9-d: Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and the Battle of Atlanta. • Huge losses on both sides • Turning point of the war: • Loss here on July 3rd • Loss at Vicksburg on July 4th • Lee retreats to Virginia Gettysburg- Continued Day 2- South attacks Union on Cemetery Ridge • North repulses repeated attacks on Little Round Top • Many exhausted Confederates surrender; Union line holds Day 3- Armies exchange vicious artillery fire • Lee orders attack on Union lines; North cuts down Confederates (Pickett’s Charge) • Meade does not counterattack; Lee retreats to Virginia - staggering losses on both sides Vicksburg Under Siege • Confederate Vicksburg prevents Union from controlling Mississippi • Spring 1863, Union destroys MS rail lines, sacks Jackson • Grant’s assaults on Vicksburg fail, begins siege in May • Starving Confederates surrender on July 4 • Port Hudson, LA falls 5 days later; Confederacy completely divided Life during the War Big Ideas p.349 • Habeas Corpus, Copperheads, Conscription/Draft Riots • Role of African Americans soldiers (54th Massachusetts, Fort Pillow) • Effects on the Northern and Southern economies • Life for soldiers, Medicine, Andersonville The Gettysburg Address • November 1863, ceremony held to dedicate cemetery in Gettysburg • Edward Everett, noted speaker, gives flowery two-hour speech • Lincoln’s two-minute speech - honors dead soldiers - calls for living to dedicate selves to preserve Union, freedom Morale • South unable to attack; hopes to undo North’s morale, get armistice • Civilian morale plummets; public calls for peace • Discord in government prevents Davis from governing effectively • North begins to question Lincoln continuing the War New Appointments • March 1864, Lincoln appoints Grant commander of all Union armies • Grant appoints William Tecumseh Sherman commander of MS division • Grant, Sherman believe in total war to destroy South’s will to fight “I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring until the south begs for mercy.” Sherman Grant and Lee in Virginia • Grant’s strategy: immobilize Lee in VA while Sherman raids Georgia • May 1864–April 1865, Grant and Lee fight many battles • Heavy losses on both sides; North can replace soldiers, South cannot (North fights a war of attrition) Sherman’s March • Sept. 1864, Sherman takes Atlanta; South tries to cut supply lines • Sherman cuts wide path of destruction in Georgia; lives off land • December, takes Savannah, turns north to help Grant fight Lee - inflicts even more destruction in SC The Election of 1864 • Democrats want immediate armistice, nominate McClellan • Lincoln runs with a pro-Union Democrat • Lincoln pessimistic; Northern victories, troops’ votes give him win The Surrender at Appomatox • After Petersburg, Davis’s government leaves Richmond, sets it afire • Lee surrenders April 9, 1865 at village of Appomattox Court House - Lee’s soldiers paroled on generous terms Economic Changes • National Bank Act of 1863—federal system of chartered banks • Gap between North and South widens: - North: industry booms; commercial agriculture takes hold - South: industry, farms destroyed • Hundreds of thousands dead, wounded; lives disrupted • Financially, war costs the government estimated $3.3 billion