The Civil War

1. The Civil War Instructor: Carol Jean Cox

2. THE CIVIL WAR • Preparing For War • Campaigns & Battles of the War • The Problems of Peacemaking

3. The Civil War • Preparing For War   • The Opposing Sides • The North’s Material Advantage Union and Confederate Resources

4. Civil War • Preparing For War  • The New Technologies • Deadlier Weaponry • Military Importance of Railroads • Aerial Reconnaissance • Black & White Photography War by Railroad

5. Civil War • Preparing For War • African Americans and the Union Cause • Growing Black Enlistment • Low Status of Black Soldiers  All African Union Regiment

6. THE CIVIL WAR • Preparing For War • Campaigns & Battles of the War • The Problems of Peacemaking

7. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles  • The First Battles 1861 • Fort Sumter Seized • Battle of Bull Run Fort Sumter, South Carolina The battlefield at Bull Run,

8. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • The Western Theater, 1862 • New Orleans Seized • Shiloh  The War in the West, 1861-1863

9. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • The Virginia Front, 1862 • McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign The Virginia Theater, 1861-1863

10. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • The Virginia Front, 1862 • McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign • Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee

11. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • The Virginia Front, 1862 • McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign • Robert E. Lee • Antietam Dead Union Soldiers at Antietam, 1862

12. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • 1863: Year of Decision • Chancellorsville  The Virginia Theater, 1861-1863

13. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • 1863: Year of Decision • Chancellorsville • Vicksburg  The Siege of Vicksburg, May-July 1863

14. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • 1863: Year of Decision • Chancellorsville • Vicksburg • Gettysburg Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863

15. Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863

16. Civil War • The Gettysberg Address   • “Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the purpose that all men are created equal” Abraham Lincoln, 1863

17. Civil War • The Gettysberg Address   • Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Abraham Lincoln, 1863

18. Civil War • The Gettysberg Address   • 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. Abraham Lincoln, 1863

19. Civil War • The Gettysberg Address   • 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.

20. Civil War • The Gettysberg Address   • 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 may take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion --

21. Civil War • The Gettysberg Address   • 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. Abraham Lincoln, 1863

22. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • 1863: Year of Decision • Chancellorsville • Vicksburg • Gettysburg • Battle of Chattanooga A Letter From the Front, Charles Wellington Reed

23. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • The Last Stage, 1864–1865 • Grant’s Northern Campaign Ulysses S. Grant Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865

24. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • The Last Stage, 1864–1865 • Grant’s Northern Campaign • Atlanta Taken • “March to the Sea” Sherman’s March to the Sea, 1864-1865

25. Civil War • Campaigns and Battles   • The Last Stage, 1864–1865 • Grant’s Northern Campaign • Atlanta Taken • “March to the Sea” • Appomattox Courthouse

26. THE CIVIL WAR • Preparing For War • Campaigns & Battles of the War • The Problems of Peacemaking

27. Civil War • The Problems of Peacemaking   • The Aftermath of War and Emancipation • The Devastated South  Richmond, VA 1865

28. Civil War • The Problems of Peacemaking   • The Aftermath of War and Emancipation • The Devastated South • Emancipation & Amendments Abraham Lincoln, 1865

29. Civil War • The Emancipation Proclamation   “That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free…” - The Emancipation Proclamation

30. Civil War • The Thirteenth Amendment  • The Fourteenth Amendment • Citizenship for African-Americans “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

31. THE CIVIL WAR • Preparing For War • Campaigns & Battles of the War • The Problems of Peacemaking

32. Future Prospects • The Civil War Today • The Value of History

33. History 17AUnited States History to 1865 Instructor: Carol Jean Cox The End