The Civil War

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The Civil War

• Instructor Carol Jean Cox

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THE CIVIL WAR

• Preparing For War
• Campaigns Battles of the War
• The Problems of Peacemaking

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The Civil War

• Preparing For War  
• The Opposing Sides
• The Norths
• Material Advantage

Union and Confederate Resources
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Civil War

• Preparing For War 
• The New Technologies
• Deadlier Weaponry
• Military Importance of Railroads
• Aerial Reconnaissance
• Black White Photography

War by Railroad
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Civil War

• Preparing For War
• African Americans and the Union Cause
• Growing Black Enlistment
• Low Status of Black Soldiers 

All African Union Regiment
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THE CIVIL WAR

• Preparing For War
• Campaigns Battles of the War
• The Problems of Peacemaking

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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles 
• The First Battles 1861
• Fort Sumter Seized
• Battle of Bull Run

Fort Sumter, South Carolina
The battlefield at Bull Run,
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles       
• The Western Theater, 1862
• New Orleans Seized
• Shiloh 

The War in the West, 1861-1863
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles      
• The Virginia Front, 1862
• McClellans Peninsular
• Campaign

The Virginia Theater, 1861-1863
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles      
• The Virginia Front, 1862
• McClellans Peninsular Campaign
• Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles      
• The Virginia Front, 1862
• McClellans Peninsular Campaign
• Robert E. Lee
• Antietam

Dead Union Soldiers at Antietam, 1862
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles        
• 1863 Year of Decision
• Chancellorsville 

The Virginia Theater, 1861-1863
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles        
• 1863 Year of Decision
• Chancellorsville
• Vicksburg 

The Siege of Vicksburg, May-July 1863
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles        
• 1863 Year of Decision
• Chancellorsville
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg

Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863
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Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863
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• The Gettysberg Address  
• Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers
  brought forth upon this continent a new nation
  conceived in liberty and dedicated to the purpose
  that all men are created equal

Abraham Lincoln, 1863
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Civil War

• The Gettysberg Address  
• Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
  whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
  and so dedicated, can long endure.

Abraham Lincoln, 1863
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Civil War

• The Gettysberg Address  
• 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.

Abraham Lincoln, 1863
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Civil War

• The Gettysberg Address  
• But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we
  can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this
  ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
  struggled here, have consecrated it, far above
  our poor power to add or detract. The world will
  little note, nor long remember, what we say here,
  but it can never forget what they did here.

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Civil War

• The Gettysberg Address  
• It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated
  here to the unfinished work which they who fought
  here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is
  rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
  task remaining before us -- that from these
  honored dead we may take increased devotion to
  that cause for which they gave the last full
  measure of devotion --

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Civil War

• The Gettysberg Address  
• that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
  not have died in vain -- that this nation, under
  God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and
  that government of the people, by the people, for
  the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln, 1863
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles        
• 1863 Year of Decision
• Chancellorsville
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg
• Battle of Chattanooga

A Letter From the Front, Charles Wellington Reed
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles      
• The Last Stage, 18641865
• Grants Northern
• Campaign

Ulysses S. Grant
Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles      
• The Last Stage, 18641865
• Grants Northern Campaign
• Atlanta Taken
• March to the Sea

Shermans March to the Sea, 1864-1865
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Civil War

• Campaigns and Battles      
• The Last Stage, 18641865
• Grants Northern Campaign
• Atlanta Taken
• March to the Sea
• Appomattox
• Courthouse

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THE CIVIL WAR

• Preparing For War
• Campaigns Battles of the War
• The Problems of Peacemaking

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Civil War

• The Problems of Peacemaking  
• The Aftermath of War and Emancipation
• The Devastated South 

Richmond, VA 1865
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Civil War

• The Problems of Peacemaking  
• The Aftermath of War and Emancipation
• The Devastated South
• Emancipation Amendments

Abraham Lincoln, 1865
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• The Emancipation Proclamation  

That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all
persons held as slaves within any State or
designated part of a State the people whereof
shall then be in rebellion against the United
States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever
free - The Emancipation Proclamation
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• The Thirteenth Amendment 
• The Fourteenth Amendment
• Citizenship for African-Americans

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except as a punishment for crime whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction.
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THE CIVIL WAR

• Preparing For War
• Campaigns Battles of the War
• The Problems of Peacemaking

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Future Prospects

• The Civil War Today
• The Value of History

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History 17AUnited States History to
1865

• Instructor Carol Jean Cox

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