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Title: Highlights of the War between the States


1
The Furnace of Civil War
  • Highlights of the War between the States

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1st BULL RUN
  • Confederate Victory
  • Proved war would not be quick and painless
  • 2nd Bull Run
  • Another confederate victory in which Lee began
    campaign to invade the north
  • Hoped to convince border states to join
    Confederacy

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Antietam
  • Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War
  • Union Victory
  • Assured Europe would stay out of war
  • Turning point of the war
  • Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

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Gettysburg
  • Pickets Charge
  • Confederate disaster
  • Last hope for Lee to invade north
  • Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

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William Shermans March
  • Captured Atlanta
  • Total War
  • March to the Sea

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Ulysses S. Grant
  • Ruthlessly used his greatest resource manpower
  • Wilderness battles in Virginia against Lee end at
    Appomatox Courthouse
  • Lee surrenders

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The Aftermath
  • The Civil War cost 600,000 men, 15 billion
    dollars
  • Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  • American democracy survived
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