THE CIVIL WAR
IB HOA
BULL RUN (MANASSAS)
• Hundreds came to
“watch”
• Confederate Victory
• “Stonewall” Jackson
• Realization that the
“southern
insurrection” was
going to be a long
and bloody road
• “It’s damned bad…” Lincoln
FOREIGN RELATIONS
• The Trent Affair 1861
• “One war at a time” Lincoln
• Confederacy Cotton
Blockades
• https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=T7L1V
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• Confederate
shipbuilding in GB and
Fr?
THE MONITOR
• 3/8 & 9/1862
• Ironclad warship
changes naval
warfare forever in
US
• The Laird Brothers
PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN
• McClellan fails to
take Richmond
• Extremely cautious
• “Quaker guns”
• Lee takes
command after
Joseph Johnston’s
death at Battle of
Seven Pines
THE FACE OF A LOST GENERATION
• The South- Celtic
herding and
agrarian lifestyle
• Attack and full frontal
charges
55% of generals killed or
wounded in battle
• The North- AngloSaxton and
Teutonic
• Union General in
Chief Scott (74) fell
asleep at councils of
SHILOH- 4/6-7/1862
AT WHAT EXPENSE WOULD THE UNION BE WILLING TO EXPEND ITS
ARMY?
• The bloodiest battle
of the war
• Named after the
little whitewash
church
• Shiloh= Hebrew
world meaning
“place of peace”
• Confederate
“surprise”, Johnston
bled to death Union
victory
• http://www.history.com/topics/am
erican-civil-war/battle-ofshiloh/videos/the-battle-of-shiloh
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
• Battle of Sharpsburg
• Bloodiest day in
American military history
8/18/1862
• 1st major battle fought on
Union soil
• Victory gave Lincoln
opportunity to issue EP
(preliminary)
• McClellan found Lee’s
battle plans wrapped
around a cigar
• http://www.history.com/t
opics/aztecs/videos/thebattle-of-antietam
CONFEDERATE DEAD BY THE FENCE BORDERING FARMER
MILLER'S 40 ACRE CORNFIELD AT ANTIETAM WHERE THE
INTENSE RIFLE AND ARTILLERY FIRE CUT EVERY CORN
STALK TO THE GROUND "AS CLOSELY AS COULD HAVE
BEEN DONE WITH A KNIFE."
THE PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
• Purpose- warning that in January he would declare
their slaves “then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
• Irony- slaves weren’t free in the Union
• Misconceptions- it DID NOT free the slaves, the 13th
Amendment did
• Long-lasting Effects- “a new birth of freedom” -GA
• Border states vs. Abolitionists
PRESIDENT LINCOLN VISITS GEN. GEORGE MCCLELLAN AT
ANTIETAM, MARYLAND - OCTOBER, 1862
"IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE THE ARMY, I SHOULD LIKE TO BORROW IT
FOR A WHILE."
FREDERICKSBURG
"WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE TRIED TO TAKE HELL," A UNION SOLDIER
REMARKS.
FREDERICKSBURG
1. 1st time Burnside
commanded an army
2. Success hinged on
element of surprise
3. The most lopsided battle
in the war
• 8 Union men for every Conf loss
4. Burnside= unpopular
commander
5. Low point in the war for the
North
http://www.history.com/topics/am
erican-civil-war/battle-offredericksburg
BURNSIDE- BEST KNOWN FOR HIS FACIAL HAIR!!!
VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN
DIVIDED THE CONFEDERACY, UNION GAINED CONTROL OF THE MR,
AND PROVED GRANT’S MILITARY GENIUS/CAREER
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
1/1/1863
“Why are you fighting this war?” Union troops asked a captured soldier.
“Because your down here,” he replied.
• Frees all slaves in
territories held by
Confederates
• Emphasizes the enlisting
of black soldiers in Union
Army as free men
• War becomes a
revolutionary struggle for
the abolition of slavery
• “…as an act of justice,
warranted by the
Constitution, upon
military necessity.”
• http://www.history.com
/topics/american-civilwar/emancipationproclamation
THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT
• 12/18/1865
• “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall
exist within the United States.”
• Conservatives are appalled by changes to the AP
U.S. history exam. Which is funny, because the
changes are hardly revolutionary.
AFRICAN AMERICAN MOVEMENTS IN
1863
• July 13-16, 1863 - Anti-draft riots in New York City include
arson and the murder of blacks by poor immigrant
whites. At least 120 persons, including children, are killed
and $2 million in damage caused, until Union soldiers
returning from Gettysburg restore order.
• July 18, 1863 - 'Negro troops' of the 54th Massachusetts
Infantry Regiment under Col. Robert G. Shaw assault
fortified Rebels at Fort Wagner, South Carolina. Col.
Shaw and half of the 600 men in the regiment are killed.
• August 10, 1863 - The president meets with abolitionist
Frederick Douglass who pushes for full equality for Union
Negro troops
• August 21, 1863 - At Lawrence, Kansas, pro-Confederate
William C. Quantrill and 450 pro-slavery followers raid the
town and butcher 182 boys and men.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
• Palmerstone and Russell's
British Mediation?
• If Union refused to accept,
the GB would recognize
Confederacy
• Napoleon III’s suggested 6
month armistice (1862)
• Interest in Mexico as a
puppet state with Hapsburg
Maximilian as Emperor
• violation of Monroe Doctrine
1823
• Czarist Russia 1863 support
for Union?
• The Great Rapproachement
CSS ALABAMA AND THE LAIRD
BROTHERS
• The last official Confederate
Flag was lowered in Liverpool
on 6 November 1865 when CSS
Shenandoah, captained by
Lieutenant Waddell, arrived in
the Mersey. He lowered the
flag and his ship was ultimately
turned over to American
authorities. President Lincoln
was assassinated by John
Wilkes Booth in l865 just days
after the surrender of the
Confederates. Booth's father,
Julius Booth, a Shakespearean
actor, came from Liverpool.
GETTYSBURG
The dead became a symbol of life and transformed
the “war” to a revolution
• "That speech won't scour. It is a flat failure.” -Lincoln
• Sometimes, less is more.
• "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near
to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did
in two minutes.” –Everett
LINCOLN’S DOGGEREL
• General Lee's Invasion of the North In eighteen sixty
three, with pomp, and mighty swell, Me and Jeff's
Confederacy, went forth to sack Phil-del, The Yankees
they got after us, and give us particular hell, And we
skedaddled back again, and didn't sack Phil-del.
• July 19, 1863, two weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg
LORETTA JANETA VELÁZQUEZ
A.K.A.
"LIEUTENANT HARRY BUFORD"
ATROCITIES OF WAR
• It took an average of
12 hours for
amputation on the
battlefield without
any form of antiseptic
or pain killer
• New Forms of
Technology- the riflemusket, minie-bullet,
submarines, railroads,
and the telegraph
• Gangrene
MARCH TO THE SEA
• Why Atlanta?
• How did this help
get Lincoln reelected?
• Was he ruthless or
did he show any
mercy?
• Evaluate how this
affected
Reconstruction.
• What are
“Sherman’s
Neckties”?
ATLANTA
LEE SURRENDERS AT THE PARLOR
APRIL 9, 1865
• Grant allows Rebel officers to keep their side arms
and permits soldiers to keep horses and mules.
• Why?
APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
Lee poses for picture shortly
after surrender
• "After four years of
arduous service
marked by
unsurpassed courage
and fortitude the Army
of Northern Virginia has
been compelled to
yield to overwhelming
numbers and
resources," Lee tells his
troops.
LINCOLN SHOT
• Good for the South?
• What would this do for
Johnson? Why didn’t
Lincoln share his plans for
Reconstruction with him?
Was this a good or a bad
thing?
• http://www.cbsnews.com/
pictures/acting-as-abeactors-who-have-playedabraham-lincoln/