Title: The%20Civil%20War
1TheCivil War,1861-1865
21860PresidentialElection
John Bell Constitutional Union
v Abraham LincolnRepublican
John BreckinridgeSouthern Democrat
Stephen A. DouglasNorthern Democrat
31860 Election Results
4President Buchanan Does Nothing!
- He believed that secession was illegal but that
coercion was also. - Constitution gave him no right to act against the
South - He did nothing!
- Country was now Abraham Lincolns, just wait
President Buchanan dismayed and hesitant failed
to deal with secession!
5Secession Begins South Carolina Dec.
20, 1860
Border States
6Leaders of the Union, 1861-1865
What makes a president
7The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis
VP Alexander Stevens
8The Confederate White House
9The Confederate Seal
MOTTO ? With God As Our Vindicator
10North vs. South in 1861
North South
Advantages ? ?
Disadvantages ? ?
11Resources North the South
12The Anaconda Plan
13Overviewofthe NorthsCivil WarStrategy Anaco
ndaPlan
Suffocate Cut Chop Seize
14Souths Civil War Strategy
15Lincolns Generals
Winfield Scott
Joseph Hooker
Ulysses S. Grant
Irwin McDowell
George McClellan
George Meade
Ambrose Burnside
George McClellan,Again!
16The Confederate Generals
Stonewall Jackson
Nathan Bedford Forrest
George Pickett
Jeb Stuart
James Longstreet
Robert E. Lee
17Fort Sumter April 12, 1861
18Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas)July, 1861
Significance
19Gen. George McClellan
Trained the Army of the Potomac!
- After the humiliating loss at the First Battle of
Bull Run George McClellan - He spent the entire summer creating a
disciplined, well-trained fighting machine! - He was an indecisive general but he whipped that
army into shape before the next battle!
20The Battle of the Ironclads,March, 1862
The Monitor vs.the Merrimac
Significance
21New Military Technology
- 1.Breech-loading rifles no more muskets
- 2. Ironclad ships
- 3.Gatling Guns
- 4.Spiral Grooves
- in gun barrels
- 5. Shells with gun powder
- 6. Canisters filled
- with bullets
22Battle of Antietam Bloodiest Single Day of the
War
September 17, 1862
Lee vs. McClellen
Significance
23,000 casualties
23War in the East 1861-1862
24He has a case of the slows. --Abraham
Lincoln
Results
25Emancipation in 1863
. . . January 1, all slaves in any state still
in rebellion shall be and forever free.
26TheEmancipationProclamation
Significance
27Fighting a just fight
28The Famous 54th Massachusetts
29August Saint-Gaudens Memorial to Col. Robert
Gould Shaw
30Women and the War
- What were their contributions?
- Dorothea Dix
- Clara Barton
-
- How were womens role the alike in the North and
South?
31US Sanitary Commission
32The South Had Poorly Organized Medical Care
- Most hospitals were in the field
- Home hospitals had the best success!
33Chancellorsville
34The War in the West, 1863 Vicksburg Significanc
e
35The Road to Gettysburg 1863
Lee vs. Meade Significance
36Gettysburg Casualties
Four score and seven years ago our father
brought forth on this continent a new nation
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. .
. -Lincoln
37Dealing With Dissent
Copperheads
Copperhead 1864 pamphlet
38The North Initiates the Draft, 1863
39Buy Your Way Out of Military Service
Bounty Jumpers
40A Pogrom Against Blacks
411864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)
42Cartoon Lampoons Democratic Copperheads in 1864
43Presidential Election Results 1864
44The Final Virginia Campaign1864-1865
Grant Heads the Union Army
45ShermansMarchto theSeathroughGeorgia,1864
War is Hell
Significance
46Surrender at AppomattoxApril 9, 1865
Let them have their horses to plow with, and, if
you like, their guns to shoot crows with. I want
no one punished Abe Lincoln
47Casualties on Both Sides
48Civil War Casualtiesin Comparison to Other Wars
49Fords Theater (April 14, 1865)
50The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth
51The Assassination
52WANTED!!
53Now He Belongs to the Ages!
54The Execution