The Civil War (part II)
Please pick up the PSI packet and the semester exam study
guide from the cart. We will briefly preview the semester exam.
You will need Class Notes 18 for today.
Remember that the unit test is scheduled for our next class –
make sure to bring all materials listed on the unit binder check
guide to use on the test!
We will:
*identify and describe major events related to the war
*analyze how Lincoln’s words and ideas helped to shape
and reflect Union goals during the war
The Civil War
The War Between the States
1861-1865
The Secession Crisis
(December 1860-April 1861)
Lincoln’s First Inaugural
Address (March 4, 1861)
• …In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and
not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The
Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict
without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath
registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I
shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and
defend it."
• I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We
must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it
must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of
memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot
grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this
broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of
our nature.
The Battle of Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861
Marks the start of the Civil War
Results in the secession of the Upper South
(Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas)
Virginia’s Secession
April 17, 1861
The Union’s “Anaconda Plan”
General
Winfield
Scott
“On to Richmond!”
The Battle of First Manassas
July 21, 1861
Union Advances in 1862
Ulysses S. Grant
(above left) led
Union forces in
the West, while
George McClellan
(above right) led
the Army of the
Potomac against
Richmond in the
East in early 1862
The Battle of Antietam
September 17, 1862
“The Bloodiest Day”
The Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
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• Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commanderin-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time
of actual armed rebellion against the authority and
government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary
war measure for suppressing said rebellion, …
• And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I
do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within
said designated States, and parts of States, are, and
henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive
government of the United States, including the military
and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain
the freedom of said persons.
• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice,
warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I
invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the
gracious favor of Almighty God.
African-American
Soldiers
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The Turning Points:
Vicksburg & Gettysburg
July 1863
Siege of Vicksburg
(above); Pickett’s
Charge at Gettysburg
(right)
The Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863
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•
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of
that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not
hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion--that 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.
1864: Total War
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General William Tecumseh
Sherman (pictured above)
While Sherman
campaigned in
the West;
Grant pushed
south towards
Richmond in a
series of deadly
battles with
Lee’s army
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
Address (March 4, 1865)
• Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty
scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills
that it continue until all the wealth piled by the
bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the
lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was
said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
• With malice toward none, with charity for all, with
firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us
strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the
nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the
battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations.
The End: 1865
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Richmond in ruins (April 1865)
General Lee surrenders to Grant at
Appomattox Court House on
April 9, 1865
Before we leave…
• Remember to study for the unit test and bring
all unit materials (listed on the binder check
rubric) with you to use on the test and turn in
for credit.
• We will complete the PSI at the end of our
next class – keep it in your binder and bring it
with you. If you are absent on Wednesday,
have it ready to turn in on Friday.