Shots Fired

-war begins at Fort Sumter, S.C., 1861

-Bull Run

-July 1861

-Southern victory

-did not pursue the retreating Union army

-citizens watched the battle

Shiloh

-April 1862

-costly victory for Grant

-demonstrated the cost of victory would be great

- 72,000 Men fought- 23,000 killed or wounded.

Confederate Losses 1,723 dead 8,012 wounded 959 missing

Union Losses 1,754 dead 8,408 wounded 2,885 missing

Antietam

-Sept. 1862

-bloodiest single day of the war

-Union victory for McClellan

-Emancipation Proclamation issued 3 days after Antietam

-Gods & Generals

Confederate Victories

-Confederates greatly outnumbered but Lee still wins

-Dec. 1862

-Fredericksburg

-May 1863

-Chancellorsville

-Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is killed

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Glory: The 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry

Gettysburg

-July 1863

-Lee invades North

-Cemetery Ridge

-Pickett’s Charge

-turning point of the war as Lee is defeated

-Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln several months later

Gettysburg

-July 1863

-Lee invades North

-Cemetery Ridge

-Pickett’s Charge

-turning point of the war as Lee is defeated

-Gettysburg Address given by Lincoln several months later

Vicksburg

- May – July 4, 1863

- Crucial Win for Union Forces

- Opened up Mississippi River.

- Captured Jackson, Miss.

- Capital

- Famished soldiers ate mules & rats

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South is Split

-July 1863

-Grant captures Vicksburg after long siege

-Grant is called to command Union armies

Sherman’s March

-1864

-”March to the Sea”:

-Total War

“War is Hell”

-burning of Atlanta

-destroy the will to fight

Sherman’s March

-1864

-”March to the Sea”:

-Total War

“War is Hell”

-burning of Atlanta

-destroy the will to fight

Grant in Pursuit

-1864

-Lee in retreat

-Grant attacks repeatedly at great loss of life

-Lincoln wants speedy end to war

War’s End

-April 1865

-Grant surrounds Lee outside Richmond

-surrender at Appomattox