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Civil War
Battle of Bull Run / Manassas
July 21st, 1861
1st battle
Confederate victory would not be one-sided
Union leadership changes - Winfield Scott to George McClellan
Battle of Shiloh
April 6th-8th, 1862
Could have been huge CSA victory
Secures TN for Union - begins control of West
Peninsula Campaign
March-July, 1862
Union all-out effort failed miserably
Lee used knowledge of land to outwit McClellan
Battle of Antietam / Sharpsburg
September 17th, 1862
mid-1800s most Europe relied on Southern cotton
Confederacy hoped that England and France would join
France was ready
Britain wanted 1 more victory
Robert E. Lee plans an invasion of the North
Harrisburg, PA and win - to convince European countries
Plan: Special Order 191 - discovered by a soldier
Union General George McClellan intercepts
After the Battle...
President Lincoln wants McClellan to follow Lee to end the war
Licoln fires him
Licoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
Freeing those in slavery
First was of rights - then of salvery
England and France refused to help the Confederacy
Further tension in South
Battle of Fredericksburg
December 15th, 1862
Fist major opposed river crossing in the nation's history
"biggest folly"
Union General Burnside - invade South and capture capital
Union & embarrased
Prompts more leadership
Battle of Chancellorsville
May 6th, 1863
Lee's greatest victory
Lee loses "right hand man"
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1st-3rd, 1863
Lee's second invasion
Siege of Vicksburg
July 4th, 1863
Campaign is led by Grant
Who controls the river, controls river
Union now controls Mississippi River
Grant made comander of Armay of Potomac
Sherman's March to the Sea
Nov-Dec, 1864
Lincoln wants the war over
Force South into surrender
Demoralizes the South
Everything of value was destroyed
Andersonville Prison
December, 1864
Prisioners were exchanged
It was shut down when the war ended
Most prisioners returned to their occupations
Represents physical/mental suffering of war
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
April 9th, 1865
Ended when Lee's surrendered Grant at this place
Lincoln assassinated 6 days later