The War in the East
By:
Danny Testin
Conor Albian
Frank Conforti
And Connor Kaplan
War in Virginia
http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/america/unitedstates/1861/campaigns/east.htm
By: Conor Albian
Battle of Bull Run
Conor Albian
• Fought in 1861 next to Bull Run creek in Manassas
oUnion- 35,000 men
oConfederate- 22,000 men
• Confederate Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard and his troops
waited for Union Gen. Irvin McDowell and his troops at a Bull
Run Creek.
• Union troops tried to find a way around the Confederates.
• During that time, the Confederates gained 10,000 more men
The Battle
Conor Albian
• Union troops crossed the creek and saw Gen. Thomas
Jackson standing like a stone wall.
oHe later got the nickname Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
• Confederate troops moved forward and attacked the Union.
• The Union could not fight back so they were forced to
retreat.
• The Confederates won and this became known as the First
Battle of Bull Run.
Conor Albian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run
Conor Albian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson
More Battles in Virginia
By: Frank Conforti
 After the shock at Bull Run Lincoln looked to have a better army,
he decided would he put General George B. McClellan in charge
 McClellan assembled a force of 100,000 soldiers called the Army
of the Potomac
 Spring of 1862- McClellan launched an effort to capture Richmond
called “Peninsular Campaign”
 To prevent McClellan from receiving reinforcements from
Washington Stonewall Jackson launched an attack towards
Washington
 Confederate army in Virginia was under the command of General
Robert E. Lee.
 Lee attacked Union forces in series of clashes called Seven Days’
Battles and forced Union army to retreat in June 1862
Frank Conforti
 After Lee saved Richmond and forced McClellan to retreat,
Lincoln ordered General John Pope to march directly on
Richmond
 Jackson’s troops met Pope’s Union forces on the battlefield in
August in 1862. The three-day battle became known as the
Second Battle of Bull Run, or the Second Battle of Manassas
 The first day was a savage and ended in a stalemate
 On the second day, Pope found Jackson’s troops and hurled his
men against the Confederates but the attacks were pushed
back due to casualties on both sides
 On the third day, the Confederates crushed Union’s army’s
assault and forced it to retreat in defeat
Frank Conforti
Frank Conforti
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Robert E Lee
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Frank Conforti
George B. McClellan
Frank Conforti
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The Battle of Antietam
By: Danny Testin
•Subsections
1. Before the Battle
2. Aftereffects
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Antietam_Overview.png
Before the Fighting
• September 4, 1862- about 40,000 barely trained confederate
soldiers begin crossing into Maryland
• Gen. Robert E. Lee divides this army
o Sends half to Harpers Ferry
 They defeat Union forces and capture the town
o Lee goes to Fredrick and urged them to join confederates
 They wouldn’t abandon the union
• Gen. McClellan hesitates attack when he learns of Lee
planning to attack Harper’s Ferry; Confederates then had time
to reunite their army
Danny Testin
Aftereffects
• Armies met Sept. 17, 1862
oUnion suffered more than 12,000 casualties
oConfederates suffered 13,000+ casualties
oBattle stopped Lee’s advance into the North
oBloodiest single-day battle in United States
history
oIt was also called the battle of Sharpsburg
oBattle lasted for hours and became the
bloodiest battle in United States history
Danny Testin
The Battle of Antietam gave the North
a slight advantage.
• Confederate leaders wanted to follow Lee’s victories in Virginia
with victory on northern soil.
• Lee’s Confederate troops and McClellan’s Union army met along
Antietam Creek in Maryland on September 17, 1862.
• The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in
U.S. history, with more than 12,000 Union and 13,000
Confederate casualties.
• Also called the Battle of Sharpsburg
• It was an important victory for the Union, stopping Lee’s
northward advance.
Danny Testin
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Battle_of_Antietam.png
By Connor Kaplan
The Union’s Naval Strategy
By Connor Kaplan
• Union’s navy quickly set up a blockade of southern ports.
• Blockade prevented the South from selling or receiving goods.
• Blockade hard to maintain because Navy had to patrol from Virginia to Texas.
• Blockade reduced the number of ships entering southern ports from 6,000 ships
to 800 ships a year.
South's Naval Strategy
• South used small, fast ships called blockade runners to outrun larger slower
Union warships.
• These runners would go to Bahamas or Nassau to buy supplies.
• Runners could still not make up for the South's loss of trade.
By Connor Kaplan
Blockade Runner
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unners&FORM=RESTAB#view=detail&id=3ADB7F19F5589DAD8
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Clash of the Ironclads
By Connor Kaplan
• Hoping to take away the Unions advantage at sea, Confederates creates new type
of ship called the Ironclad.
• Confederates captured Union steamship and turned it into a Ironclad
• Ironclad heavily armored with iron.
• Soldiers described them as a huge half submerged crocodile.
• March 1862 the Ironclad Virginia sunk 2 Union ships and damaged a smaller one.
• John Ericsson designed Union Ironclad
• Ironclad called the Monitor much smaller than confederates Virginia
• Virginia and Monitor came to blows and fought for several hours
• Smaller Monitor had more powerful weapons and forced Virginia to withdraw
• Clash of the Ironclads signaled a revolution in Naval warfare
By Connor Kaplan
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5FD0#view=detail&id=7DC72D03894D81A00246D125F16E8F2E
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By Connor Kaplan
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5FD0#view=detail&id=7DC72D03894D81A00246D125F16E8F2E
F4E6F791&selectedIndex=2
http://wn.com/ironclad_ships#2
By Connor Kaplan
Bibliography
United States History beginnings to 1877. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Slide 12 of Civil war power point