The Civil War

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Chapter 11

• The Civil War

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Fort Sumter
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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

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After the Battle of Fort Sumter

• Virginia secedes

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Confederate Strategy

• Defensive Campaign
• Violation of this strategy cost them the war

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1st Battle of Bull Run

• 1st real bloodshed of war
• Stonewall Jackson

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George McClellan Army of the Potomac Ulysses
S. Grant Battle of Shiloh
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Major Confederate LeadersRobert E Lee
George Pickett Pete Longstreet
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Antietam
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Antietam
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Antietam
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Antietam
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Graveyard at Antietam
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Antietam was the single bloodiest day in the
history of the United States
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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

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Conscription

• North began to draft Young men into the military
• Increase size of military
• Overwhelm the south
• Solved the problem of dissention

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Soldiers Life

• Little food
• Little water
• No provisions
• No place to sleep
• Very hard life

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Civil War Medicine

• Clara Barton
• War Nurse
• Red Cross

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Civil War Hospital
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Civil War Medical Kit
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Amputated Legs
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Prison System of the South and North
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Andersonville
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Creek that runs through prison
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Prisoner found at Andersonville
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33,000 Prisoners on 26 acres of land
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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

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Day 1

• John Buford
• Skirmish Between Buford and soldiers moving into
  Gettysburg to get shoes
• Union Holds off the confederate attack

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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

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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

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Little Round Top
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Day 3

• Longstreet attacked the center of the union Lines
• Picketts charge
• The rebels almost broke the Union Lines
• But had to retreat and would never again gain the
  momentum

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Gettysburg Address
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Shermans March to the sea
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Atlanta Ammunition depot
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Atlanta Before Sherman
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Atlanta Slave Auction
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Grant and Lee met at Appomattox Courthouse to
sign peace agreement
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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