SOME BATTLES HAVE TWO NAMES!
Union named battles after geographic features.
Confederacy named battles after nearest city.
Battle of Bull Run
(Manassas):
July 21, 1861
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas):
July 21, 1861
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas):
July 21, 1861
Significance?
-Proved war would not be one-sided
-Union leadership changes – Winfield Scott to George
McClellan
Battle of Shiloh:
April 6-8, 1862
Battle of Shiloh:
April 6-8, 1862
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh:
April 6-8, 1862
Significance?
- Could have been huge CSA victory (Grant drunk?)
- Secures TN for Union, begins control of West
Battle of Shiloh:
April 6-8, 1862
Battle of Shiloh:
April 6-8, 1862
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh:
April 6-8, 1862
Significance?
- Could have been huge CSA victory (Grant drunk?)
- Secures TN for Union, begins control of West
- Lee realizes the South needs an ally – he believes a major
victory in the north (take Harrisburg, PA) will attract an ally.
- Lee’s plan to invade the North was discovered by a soldier
on battlefield (“Special Order 191”)
- Union General
George McClellan
met the Confederacy
at Sharpsburg, MD
(Antietam Creek)
- Single bloodiest
day in American
History
Battle Map
After the Battle of
Antietam…
After the Battle of Antietam, McClellan lets Lee’s
tattered force escape into Virginia – he is dismissed.
Lee’s force is
weak – follow
them and end
What did the Proclamation
the war!
NO - - they
might have
more numbers
than we think!
really accomplish?
You have a
case of the
“slows” –
you’re fired!
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
• The Proclamation only frees slaves living in
Confederate states.
• Turns the focus of the war: it was a war over “states’
rights”, now a war over slavery
• Europe, particularly England and France, refused to
help the Confederacy. How could they back a war to
promote slavery when they had already outlawed it?
• Slaves start rebelling in the South – creates further
tension