Civil War - Anahi Anaya

Abraham lincoln
1. wrote and delivered the gettysburg adress
2. born: February 12,1809
3. Lincoln served from March 1861, until his assassination in April 1865.
  1. He had 5 children
4. National Union Party
5. A self taught Illinois lawyer and legislator with a reputation as an eloquent opponent of slavery.
  1. shocked many when he overcame several more prominent contenders to win the Republican's Party's nomination for president in 1860
6. His election that November pushed several Southern States to secede.
  1. By the time of his inauguration in March 1861.
    1. The civil war began barely a month later after this event.
battles
1. battle of bull run
  1. generals
    1. Joseph E. Johnston
    2. Pierre G.T Beauregard
  2. Manassas Virginia
  3. Fought on July 21,1861
  4. Events
    1. 1. General Pierre waiting for general Mcdowell and his troops along a creek called Bull Run.
      1. 2. For two days, the Union tried to find a way around the confederates.
  5. Strategy
    1. Control the best route road, to the confederate capital.
  6. 2nd battle of bull run
    1. Manasses, Virginia
    2. August 1862
    3. generals
      1. 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.
      2. 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
      3. john pope
      4. George fairfield
    4. events
      1. 1. Lincoln orders John pope to march on Richmond.
      2. 2. Jackson's troops clash with Pope's troops.
      3. 3. Pope get's pushed back.
      4. Confederates win
2. Seven Day's
  1. George B. McDowell
    1. Union-North
  2. Richmond, Virginia
    1. June 26,1862
  3. generals
    1. D.H Hill
    2. George Jackson
  4. Events
    1. 1. Lee strengthens positions.
      1. 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. 2. Forces Union army to retreat
        3. Series of clashes
  5. Confederates win
3. Battle of Shiloh
  1. South, Tennsessee
  2. April 6,1862
  3. Ulysses S. Grant - North
    1. Johnston
    2. North- Union
    3. Fought in Mexican, American war.
  4. 1. Grant waits at Shiloh church
    1. 2. Waiting for the army of Ohio.
      1. 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.
Antietam
1. September 17,1862
2. Robert E. Lee
  1. Jackson Mcellan
    1. Union officer A. H. Nickerson
3. 1. South crosses to Maryland.
  1. 2. Lee divides his troops
    1. 3.Mcellan finds about; hesitates to attack
      1. 4. two armies meet, about 25,000 in total die.
4. Union wins
Clash of the Ironclads
1. Coastline; Virginia/texas
2. The Monitor-Union
3. Merrimack-> The Virginia- Confederate
4. 1. Confederacy captures Merrimack; then renames it the The Virginia.
  1. 2. Confederacy uses The Virginia to sink 2 union ships.
    1. 3. Virginia encounters The Monitor; they fight ----> The Virginia retreats.

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