American Pageant Chapter 20-21 Civil War Battles APUSH Review

Battles of Civil War

 

America’s Deadliest War

 

Civil War Battles

  • Battle of Bull Run (July 1861): Proved war would not be short. South wins!
  • Anaconda Plan: Winfield Scott's plan to use U.S. Navy to blockade Confederacy and take control of Mississippi River
  • Antietam (Sept. 1862): Lee hopes to earn foreign recognition and bring border states into the conflict
    • Lee retreats to Virginia and Lincoln prepares for Emancipation Proclamation.
    • Chance at foreign recognition lost

Ulysses S. Grant wins much needed Union victories in the west

Two huge defeats for the South!

  • Gettysburg: General Lee hoped to win a victory on Union soil. Failed and forced to retreat to Virginia.
  • Vicksburg (July 4th) General Grant in the west wins complete control of Mississippi river.
  • Sherman's March to the Sea: William Tecumseh Sherman lead march of deliberate destruction throughout the South. Tactic of total war
    • Destroyed everything
    • Atlanta defeated in Sept. 1864 (Helps Lincoln get reelected in 1864)

Surrenders!

 

Few Days Later
  • April 14 1865, John Wilkes Booth kills Lincoln in Ford Theater