CIVIL WAR

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CIVIL WAR

• Timeline

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Early Campaigns and Battles- 1862Southern
Victories

• Northern achievements by 1862
• total naval supremacy
• Confederate troops cleared from West Virginia,
  Kentucky, much of Tennessee
• New Orleans captured
• Confederate achievements by 1862
• stall campaign for the Mississippi at Shiloh
• defend Richmond from capture

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The Coming of Emancipation 1863War Turns
Against the South

• September 22, 1862--Antietam prompts preliminary
  Emancipation Proclamation
• surrender in 100 days or lose slaves
• January 1, 1863--Proclamation put into effect for
  areas still in rebellion
• African Americans flee to Union lines
• Confederacy loses thousands of laborers

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Effects of Emancipation - 1863

• 200,000 African American Union troops
• 54th Massachusetts is first! (Glory)
• Many others labor in Northern war effort
• Lincoln pushes further for black rights
• organizes governments in conquered Southern
  states that abolish slavery
• Maryland, Missouri abolish slavery
• January 31, 1865--13th Amendment will be passed

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The Tide Turns - 1863

• May, 1863--war-weariness
• New York riots against conscription (pg. 466)
• Grant seems bogged down at Vicksburg
• Union defeated at Chancellorsville
• Democrats attack Lincoln
• July, 1863
• Lee loses Battle of Gettysburg
• Vicksburg falls, North holds the Mississippi

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Last Stages of the Conflict 1864

• March 9, 1864--Grant made supreme commander of
  Union armies
• Union invades the South on all fronts
• William Sherman marches through Georgia
• Grant lays siege to Richmond, Petersburg
• September 2--Sherman takes Atlanta
• November 8--Lincoln reelected

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Last Stages of the Conflict - 1865

• April 9, 1865--Lee surrenders at Appomatox Court
  House, VA.
• April 14--Lincoln assassinated
• May 26--Final capitulation of Confederacy