THE CIVIL WAR (1861-1865) US HISTORY
Election of 1860
Fort Sumter
The President Lincoln in 1860 1865 If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Which states jointed the Confederacy? Which states were considered border states?
Civil Liberties Washington DC Lincoln s Actions Southern sympathizers arrested in border states Habeas Corpus suspended Martial law established
Washington, D.C., vicinity. 15-in. gun and mounting
Union Confederacy Advantages Disadvantages Advantages Disadvantages Larger Population More Economic Resources Stronger Political Leadership Strong World Recognition Strong Navy Weaker Reason for Fighting Weak Military Leadership Lack of Knowledge of Land Long Supply Lines Few North/South Railroads Fighting on home soil Strong Military Leadership Strong Morale Less Industry Less Technology Fewer Economic Resources Fewer People Able to Fight Weak Political Leadership Weak Navy That Could Not Break Blockade
Lincoln s Objectives Blockade the South Control the Mississippi Capture Richmond
Civil War Casualties UNITED STATES Battle Deaths 110,070 Disease etc 250,152 Total 360,222 CONFEDERATE STATES Battle Deaths 94,000 Disease etc 165,000 Total 258,000 5 costliest battles of the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg (1863) casualties = 51,112 Battle of Chickamauga (1863) casualties = 34,624 Battle of Chancellorsville (1863) casualties = 30,099 Battle of Spotsylvania (1864) casualties = 27,399 Battle of Antietam (1862) casualties = 26,134
Modern Weaponry
Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Federal soldiers with big gun at Fort McAllister
Civil War Battlefields
Fredericksburg, Va. Nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission
Clara Barton
Emancipation Proclamation Freed slaves only in areas of rebellion
Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Images of the Civil War
Cold Harbor, Va. African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle
A harvest of death, Gettysburg, July, 1863
Gettysburg, Pa. Soldiers killed on July 2, in the wheatfield near the Emmittsburg road
Spotsylvania Court House, Va., vicinity. Body of a Confederate soldier near Mrs. Alsop's house
William Tecumseh Sherman Reply to the City of Atlanta:.the South began the war. long before Mr. Lincoln was installed, and before the South had one [reason for] provocation. I myself have seen. hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry and with bleeding feet.. Now that war comes to you, you feel very different. You. did not feel [the horrors of this war] when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition. to carry war into Kentucky and Tennessee, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace. "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out."
Atlanta: Before & After Sherman
Lee Surrenders
Richmond, 1865
25% of the Mississippi budget was spent on artificial limbs in 1870
The state flag of Mississippi
December 19, 2010 The Charleston Secession Gala (150 year anniversary) At the dance and outside