Civil War - Anahi Anaya

Civil War - Anahi Anaya

1. Abraham lincoln

   • wrote and delivered the gettysburg adress
   • born: February 12,1809
   • Lincoln served from March 1861, until his assassination in April 1865.
     • He had 5 children
   • National Union Party
   • A self taught Illinois lawyer and legislator with a reputation as an eloquent opponent of slavery.
     • shocked many when he overcame several more prominent contenders to win the Republican's Party's nomination for president in 1860
   • His election that November pushed several Southern States to secede.
     • By the time of his inauguration in March 1861.
       • The civil war began barely a month later after this event.

2. battles

   • battle of bull run
     • generals
       • Joseph E. Johnston
       • Pierre G.T Beauregard
     • Manassas Virginia
     • Fought on July 21,1861
     • Events
       • 1. General Pierre waiting for general Mcdowell and his troops along a creek called Bull Run.
         • 2. For two days, the Union tried to find a way around the confederates.
     • Strategy
       • Control the best route road, to the confederate capital.
     • 2nd battle of bull run
       • Manasses, Virginia
       • August 1862
       • generals
         • George B. Mcellan
           • Union-North
           • Strategy: Slowly bring the force through
           • Mcellan was a U.S. Army officer, railroad president and politician who served as a major general during the Civil War (1861-65).
           • Mcellan organized the Army of the Potamac in 1861
           • He also breifly served as general-in-chief of the Union army.
           • He also failed to decisively defeat Lee's Confederate Army later that year.
           • Frustrated by Mcellan's overly cautious tactics Lincoln removes him from command.
             • Of the army of the Potamac in late 1861.
           • Frustrated by Mcellan's overly cautiously tactics. Lincoln removed him from command of the Potomac in late 1862.
         • Stonewall Jackson
           • Confederate- South
           • Strategy: Stand his ground, show no Fear.
             • Did not let any Union troops through
               • After a difficult childhood. He graduated from U.S. military Academy at West Point,New York.
               • After his home state Virginia seceded from the union he joined the confeederates.
                 • He soon forged his reputation for fearlessness and tenacity.
                   • During the Shenandoah Valley campaign later that year.
           • Jackson served under Lee from 1807 to 1870
         • john pope
         • George fairfield
       • events
         • 1. Lincoln orders John pope to march on Richmond.
         • 2. Jackson's troops clash with Pope's troops.
         • 3. Pope get's pushed back.
         • Confederates win
   • Seven Day's
     • George B. McDowell
       • Union-North
     • Richmond, Virginia
       • June 26,1862
     • generals
       • D.H Hill
       • George Jackson
     • Events
       • 1. Lee strengthens positions.
         • Robert E. Lee
           • South-Confederate
           • Background
             • graduate of West Point Academy
             • Served in Mexican American War.
           • Strategy: Unpredictable moves.
           • Lee served as a military officer in the U.S. Army, a West Point commandant and the legendary general of the Confederate Army during the american Civil war (1861-65)
         • 2. Forces Union army to retreat
           • 3. Series of clashes
     • Confederates win
   • Battle of Shiloh
     • South, Tennsessee
     • April 6,1862
     • Ulysses S. Grant - North
       • Johnston
       • North- Union
       • Fought in Mexican, American war.
     • 1. Grant waits at Shiloh church
       • 2. Waiting for the army of Ohio.
         • 3. Grant recruits instead of setting up defenses.
           • 4. The south ambushes the North while the North are sleeping.
             • 5. Johnston - South killed on day 1.
               • 6. The south pushes the north back.
                 • 7. Northern victory, around 10,000 each side.

3. Antietam

   • September 17,1862
   • Robert E. Lee
     • Jackson Mcellan
       • Union officer A. H. Nickerson
   • 1. South crosses to Maryland.
     • 2. Lee divides his troops
       • 3.Mcellan finds about; hesitates to attack
         • 4. two armies meet, about 25,000 in total die.
   • Union wins

4. Clash of the Ironclads

   • Coastline; Virginia/texas
   • The Monitor-Union
   • Merrimack-> The Virginia- Confederate
   • 1. Confederacy captures Merrimack; then renames it the The Virginia.
     • 2. Confederacy uses The Virginia to sink 2 union ships.
       • 3. Virginia encounters The Monitor; they fight ----> The Virginia retreats.