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The Civil War
By: Rachel
Toward
&
Waynekia Gardner
&
Kendall Butler
Profound divisions existed among
Americans over the future course of their
country, and especially over the South's
"peculiar institution slavery.
The South
secedes
- On april 17,1861 VA. Decide to secede
from the union. Many delegates especially
from the eastern countries of VA. Felt that
Lincolns decision to use forces was on act
of war.
- Virginia became he largest confederate
state.
The Battle Of
FT. Sumter
Sumter, FORT a
defensive work in the
harbor of Charleston
S. C. Major Anderson
had long urged his
government but in
vain, to strengthen
the military works in
Charleston Harbor.
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few replies was Be
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The Battle of Shiloh
• The small area around a tiny church at Shiloh yielded
to this point in the history of the U.S. one of the most
castle & tragic battles ever
• The name ironic, in that the dead at Shiloh amended
to more Americans dead in every war & battle in
U.S. history combined to that point.
Battle of the “Iron Glads”
• The confederacy began to build a fleet of ships clothed
in iron planes that made them impervious to enemy
cannon fire. Armed with an underwater ram, these
ships were designed to slam into ships an sink the
enemy’s vessels.
• The 1st of these confederacy “Ironclads” was
constructed the burned out hull of the USS Mermen
left abandoned the Newport, VA. Shipyards early in
the war.
Emancipation of Proclamation
• In 1862, after the unions victory of Antietan Lincolns issued
a preliminary decree stating that , unless the rebellious states
returned to the union by Jan. 1 freedom would be granted to
slave within those states.
• Jan. 1 Lincolns presented the emcipaton proclamation. The
proclamation declared, “ all persons held as slaves within any
states or designed part of , the state, the people where of shall
be in rebellion against the U.S. shall be then, the for world
and forever free.
Grants Victory at Vicksburg
• Grant had gained control over a wide swath of the
western of the western confederacy & made
confederacy armies pay the price for opposing him,
while lee had decimated his own army in a series of
stralegic & tactical offensives that were unnecessary
to the statement the confederacy needed.
Gettysburg Address
• Speech by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and one
of the most quoted speeches in U.S history. It was
delivered at the dedication of the soldiers , national,
cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the
afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 19, 1863 during the civil
war.
Grants Campaign in Va.
• Grants failed in the overland campaign either to
destroy Lee’s army or capture his capital.
• Grants casuaities averaged 2,000 daily, but unlike
any previous union commander, he had limited the
offensive prowers of his opponet, with the overland
campaign ,the army of the Potomac.
Appomattiox
• Was the final engage of confederate general Robert
E. Lee’s army of northern Virginia before it surrender
to the union army under Lt. Genulysses. Grant near
the end of the American civil war.
Assassination
• On April 14, 1865 shortly after 10pm. Actor John
Wikes Booth entered the presidential box at Fords
theater in Washington D.C at fatally shot president
Abraham Lincoln. As union slumped forward in his
seat , Booth leapt onto the stage and escape through
the back door. A Dr. in the audience rushed over to
examine the presient. Lincoln was then carried across
the street to petersens boarding house, where he died
early the next morning.
The 1st battle of Bull Run
• The battle of bull run was the 1st major land battle of
the american civil war fought on July 21,1861 near
Manassas Va.
The battle for the capital
• June 25- July 1, 1862