Chapter 11: The Civil War Begins

Confederate attacked the Union their fort in South Carolina. This was the first actual battle & marked the start of the Civil War. (no casualties)

Union plan to block all of the Confederate's resources, strangling them economically by taking over water ways with the navy. (suffocate them to surrender)

1st real battle, Confederate victory, Washingtonian spectators gather to watch battle, Gen. Jackson stands as Stonewall and turns tide of battle in favor of Confederates, realization that war is not going to be quick and easy for either side

general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)

General of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious

an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. (defeated Lee's army and won many battles)

Navy Commander who was In charge of seizing New Orleans, which was the Confederacy's largest city and busiest port (successful in doing so)

the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime (has to be brought before court before jailed to decide if they should be or not)

a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War

fort where black Union soldiers were massacred after surrendering

The most infamous prison in the south. There was no shelter. There was a huge population, and there were food shortages, overcrowding, and disease that killed about 100 men a day during the summer months.

Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field. (nurse during the civil war)

Union General George G. Meade led an army of about 90,000 men to victory against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army of about 75,000. Gettysburg is the war's most famous battle because of its large size, high cost in lives, location in a northern state, and for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

In Virginia where Lee daringly divided his numerically inferior army and sent Stonewall Jackson to attack the Union flank. This was successful strategy as it was one of the Confederates most successful victories of the war. However, during the battle Jackson (Stonewall Jackson) was shot and killed by friendly fire which depleted the moral of the confederate force.

Battle which gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, a major part of their Anaconda plan

a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in Nov. 1863 at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg

United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)

the site of surrender of the Confederate general Lee to Union general Grant in April 1865, marking the end of the Civil War, his surrender prevent several more years of Guerrilla War, Grant was lenient- the idea of reconciliation not vengeance, the south could keep its horses and the generals could keep their guns

was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.