THE CIVIL WAR : YEAR BY YEAR

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THE CIVIL WAR YEAR BY YEAR

• (1861-1865)

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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.

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The Battle of the Capitols
Washington D.C.
Richmond, Virginia
1st Bull Run
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The Anaconda Strategy
The Blockade
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fighting in 1862
Antietam
Washington D.C.
The Peninsular Campaign
Richmond, Virginia
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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.

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1863

• Lincoln Delivers the
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address

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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.

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Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863
Gettysburg
Washington D.C.
Richmond, Virginia
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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.

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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.

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1865 Surrender

• On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders the
  C.S.A. Army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox
  Courthouse, Virginia.

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Fighting in 1864 1865
Washington D.C.
Appomattox
Richmond, Virginia
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• ... 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.