Battles of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

The first shots of the Civil War were fired in South Carolina

Battle of Gettysburg

Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.

Atlanta Campaign

Sherman's attack on Atlanta... destroyed railroads, businesses; burned Atlanta to the ground. 1864

William Tecumseh Sherman

Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war

Sherman's March to the Sea

during the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along their way.

Appamattox Courthouse

Final event of the Civil War; Lee surrendered to Grant thereby ending the war

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force

Ulysses S. Grant

an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

He was a confederate general who was known for his fearlessness in leading rapid marches bold flanking movements and furious assaults. he earned his nickname at the battle of first bull run for standing courageously against union fire. During the battle of chancellorsville his own men accidently mortally wounded him.

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

secede

withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

blockade

an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

draft

A law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military

Clara Barton

Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross

John Wilkes Booth

was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

Battle of Bull Run

1861, 1st major battle, proved war was going to be long and costly

Battle of Antietam

Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

Battle of Vicksburg (1863)

Union gains control of Mississippi River and splits the confederacy in two. Grant takes lead of Union armies and total war begins.

Atlanta to Savannah

Where was Sherman's March to the Sea?

Women's involvement in the Civil War

They would work like nurses, treating to the sick