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Apr 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865 (Women in Civil War (Harriet Tubman (African…
Apr 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865
Popular Battles of Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Dates:
Jul 1, 1863 – Jul 3, 1863
Won by:
George Meade
Result:
Union victory
The Battle of Vicksburg
Dates:
May 18, 1863 – Jul 4, 1863
Location:
Warren County, Mississippi, MS
Result:
Decisive Union victory
Children in Civil War
Soldiers
Spy
Drummer boy
Buglers,
Work in NAVY as "Powder monkeys"
Presidents during Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Born:
February 12, 1809
The 16th President of the United States
Presidential term:
March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865
He issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation“that all persons held as slaves” within the rebel states “are, and henceforward shall be free.” ,
Jefferson Davis
Born:
June 3, 1808,
Political party:
Democratic Party
Presidential term
:February 18, 1861 – May 5, 1865
Died :
December 6, 1889,
Women in Civil War
Clara Barton
American nurse
Suffragist
Humanitarian
Schoolteacher
Support:
Union
Harriet Tubman
African American
Abolitionist
Humanitarian
Union spy
African-Americans in Civil War
Frederick Douglass
Famed 19th-century author
Famed orator
Abolitionist leader
Slave
Generals during Civil War
Robert E. Lee
A military officer in the U.S. Army
A West Point commandant
The legendary general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
Technology in Civil War
NEW KINDS OF WEAPONS
Minié bullets
Bullets could spin
Travel up to 900 feet
Able to kill at half a mile
The Gatling Gun
The ancestor of the modern machine gun
The most successful of several rapid-fire guns
Richard Gatling invented the gun
THE RAILROAD
allowed generals to move their soldiers
send supplies
send armamens
THE TELEGRAPH
Invented by Samuel Morse in 1844
Wires sprang up all along the East Coast
During the war, 15,000 miles of telegraph cable was laid purely for military purposes.
President Lincoln would regularly visit the Telegraph Office to get the latest news.
Ironclad Warships
The first engagement between two iron-clad ships was between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
The first fight between iron clad ships of war, in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862,
In which the Monitor whipped the Merrimac and the whole school of Confederate steamers.
