Civil War Begins

1. Civil War Begins

2. Fort Sumter • Confederation took Fort Sumter without much of a fight • Lincoln did not defend nor abandon Fort Sumter, he just sent food for the hungry men

3. Union and Confederate Forces Clash • After Sumter fell, Lincoln called for volunteers • Along the Upper Southern states, people were not willing to volunteer

4. Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN. (April 1864)

5. 262 African-Americans 295 white Unionsoldiers. Ordered black soldiers murdered after theysurrendered! [many white soldiers killed aswell] Became the first GrandWizard of the Ku KluxKlan after the war Nathan Bedford Forrest(Captured Fort Pillow)

6. There They Go!!!!!!!! • In April and May, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded • They became part of the Confederacy

9. Strengths and Strategies • The North and South were unevenly matched • The north had more factories, more people, greater food production, more railroads, and more first rate generals

10. North’s Three Part Plan • The navy would blockade Southern ports, so they could neither export cotton, nor import much needed manufactured goods • Union riverboats and armies would move down the Mississippi River and split the confederacy in two • Union armies would capture the Confederate Capital at Richmond, Virginia

11. Bull Run • Near a small creek 25 miles away from Washington D.C. • “There stands Jackson like a stone wall” • Famous Quote for General Jackson that sis not let up on the Union • He became known as “Stonewall Jackson” • The South won

14. The Confederate Seal

15. Ulysses S. Grant • Brave and decisive military commander • After 11 days on the job he captured two Confederate Forts • While Grant pushed South, by ship General Farragut captured New Orleans, dividing the Confederate in two

16. The Yankees Are Coming!

17. Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Leaders of the Confederacy

19. Confederate White House

20. 23,000 casualties September 17. 1862 Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War”

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23. Emancipation Proclamation • As Jefferson Davis’s Confederacy struggled to gain foreign recognition, abolitionist grew in the north • Because he was winning, he could use the confederates resources, so he did…. To free them! (Slaves were the resources)

24. Emancipation in 1863

25. Emancipation Proclamation

26. The Southern View of the Proclamation

27. African American Recruiting Poster

28. Famous 54th Massachusetts

29. African American battles

30. Black Troops Freeing Slaves

31. African Americans • Although African Americans made up of only 1% of the Northern population, by wars end about 18,000 African Americans fought for the Union • That’s about 10% • They suffered from discrimination

32. Soldiers Suffer on Both Sides • Unhealthy conditions as filthy surrounding • Limited diet • Inadequate medical care • Diarrhea was common • In the 1860’s the technology of killing had outrun the technology of medical care

33. Union Prison Campat Andersonville, GA

34. Union Survivors

35. Burying the Dead

36. Prison Camps • Confederate camps were overcrowded and unsanitary • The south lacked food and canvas tents • The north had enough to eat but did not provide heat • Many confederate soldiers died of phnemonia

37. Women • Women contributed as nurses • Almost 3,000 in the North • One was Clara Barton who later founded the Red Cross