Civil War Project - Darwin Perry

First Battle of Bull Run
1. Manassas, Virginia
  1. July 21,1861
2. General McDowell
  1. Union
    1. Control the best route to the Confederate capital
3. Stonewall Jackson
  1. Confederate
4. George McClellan
  1. Union
    1. Slowly brings the forces
Seven Days' Battle
1. Richmond, VA
  1. June 1862
2. Robert E. Lee
  1. Confederate
  2. Graduate of West Point. Served in Mexican War
  3. Take risks, unpredictable moves
3. Lee strengthend his positions
4. Forced Union to retreat
5. Series of clashes
6. Confederacy won.
Second Battle of Bull Run
1. Manassas, VA
  1. August 1862
2. Lincoln orders Pope to march on Richmond
3. Jackson wanted to defeat Pope's army
4. Pope gets pushed back
Antietam
1. September 17,1862
2. Union soldiers found a copy of Lee's battle plan
3. McClellan had learned that Lee had divided his army in order to attack Harpers Ferry
4. North: 12,000 dead South: 13,000 dead
5. McClellan kept four divisions of soldiers in reserve and refused to use them to attack Lee's devastated army
Clash of the Ironclads
1. March 1862
2. The Virginia and the Monitor
3. Confederates captured a Union steamship, the Merrimick
4. Turned the Merrimack into an Ironclad and renamed it, the Virginia
5. Before nightfall, the Virginia easily sank two of the Union's wooden warships
6. The Union navy had already built it's own ironclad, The Monitor
Battle of Shiloh
1. Shiloh Church
2. April 6, 1862
3. Ulysses S. Grant
  1. Union
  2. Fought in Mexican American War
  3. Graduate of West Point
  4. Veteran
  5. Farmer, retail, real estate
  6. Bold and restless
  7. Unconditional surrender
4. Grant stops at Shiloh Church
5. Waiting for army of Ohio
6. Grant drills recruits instead of defenses
7. South ambushes North as they sleep
8. Johnston killed on Day 1
9. Ohio army arrives/push back the South
10. North wins/ ~ 10,000 each side dead
11. David Farragut
  1. Union
  2. Trained from Navy
  3. Drove first ship at age 12
  4. Naval Warfare
Battle of Vicksburg
1. Vicksburg, Mississippi
2. Mid-May 1863
3. Union protects and disguises ships
4. Union sneaks past Confederates to Vicksburg
5. Union lays siege to Vicksburg
6. As food ran out, residents and soldiers survived by eating horse, dogs, and rats
  1. The Confederate soldiers became sick and hungry
7. Confederates surrendered
8. On July 4th, Pemberton surrendered
9. Grant sent food to the soldiers immediately
Battle of Fredericksburg
1. Fredericksburg, VA
2. April 1863
3. Burnside forces march to Richmond delayed by river
4. Meanwhile Lee reunites his army
5. 2 armies fight and Burnside loses/retreats
6. Lee used most of his army to attack Hooker's troops
7. Lee's army had won a major victory but suffered severe casualities
8. Ambrose Burnside
  1. Union
  2. Swift decisive attack on Richmond
Battle of Chancellorsville
1. Chancellorsville, VA
2. April 1863
3. Hooker split troops to approach Confederate's flank/side
4. Lee used most of army to attack Hooker's troops
5. Union was almost cut in two
6. Union held a defensive line then retreated
7. Joseph Hooker
  1. Union
  2. Ordered 115,000 soldiers to split off and approach the Confederate side.
Battle of Gettysburg: First Day
1. Gettysburg, PA
2. July 1, 1863
3. Lee cut across northern Maryland to southern Pennslyvania
4. Lee's forces gather at Gettysburg
5. Lee's troops ran into Meade's troops
6. Lee and Meade's troops fight
7. Confederates pushed Union back
8. Lee orders Ewell to attack. Ewell hesitates
9. Union gains defensive position
10. Both camps wait for reinforcements
Battle of Gettysburg: Second Day
1. Gettysburg, PA
2. July 2, 1863
3. Lee ordered an attack on the left side of Union line
4. Union and Confederate troops fight for Round Top
5. Chamberlain and Oates fought/clashed
6. Union forced Confederates to pull back from Little Round Top
7. Confederates attack Cementary Hill
8. Attack is unsuccessful, both armies at a stand still
Battle of Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge
1. Gettysburg, PA
2. July 3, 1863
3. George Pickett
  1. Confederate
  2. For one mile, the Confederates marched slowly up toward Cementary Hill
4. Longstreet tries to convince Lee not to attack again, he does anyway
5. For an hour, Confederates shelled Cementary Ridge with cannon fire
6. Pickett charges Cementary Ridge
7. Confederates retreated
8. Meade does not pursue
9. Aftermath of Gettysburg
  1. Lee's troops will never again attack Union
  2. Confederates don't get backup from France
  3. Turning point in war.
Gettysburg Address
1. November 19, 1863
2. What was it?
  1. President Lincoln praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning Civil War in a speech
3. Why did Lincoln say the War was being fought?
  1. The ideals of liberty, equality, and democracy
The Wilderness Campaign and Cold Harbor
1. Central Virginia
2. May through June
3. Grant ordered Meade to Spotslyvania
4. Over the next month, Union soldiers moves the Confederate troops back toward Richmond
5. Union suffered 7,000 casualities
6. Battle delayed Grant's plans to take the Confederate capital
7. Union suffered twice as much but Grant still continues
8. Grant slowly advanced his troops through Virginia
9. Grant hoped to take control of the key railroad junction
10. Grant was winning but had not captured Richmond
11. Lincoln was discouraged by Grant's failure
Generals
1. Robert E. Lee
2. Ulysses S. Grant
3. Stonewall Jackson
4. Pemberton
5. McDowell
6. David Farragut
7. George McClellan
8. Joseph Hooker
9. William Oates
10. Joshua Chamberlain
11. James Longstreet
12. George G. Meade
13. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
14. D.H. Hill
15. John Pope
16. George Fairfield
17. A.H. Nickerson
18. Joseph E. Johnston
19. William Tecumseh Sherman
20. Ambrose Burnside
21. Winfield Scott
Abraham Lincoln
1. Wrote the Gettysburg Address.
2. President
3. Directed Union Generals
Advantages the Union and Confederates had
1. Union
  1. 22 million people.
  2. Network of roads, canals, and railroads
  3. Production of coal, iron, wheat, and wool increased.
  4. Export of corn, wheat, beef, and pork to Europe doubled
2. Confederacy
  1. Strong military tradition.
  2. Many brilliant officers put into battle
  3. Farms provided food for the soldiers
  4. Strategic
  5. Only needed to defend itself until the Union grew tired of fighting.

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