THE CIVIL WAR

FORT SUMTER

BATTLE OF BULL RUN

• Showed it wouldn't be an easy victory.
• Lincoln failed and kept on trying.
• Lincoln sent commander General B. McCellen.
• The General led 100,000 troops on a march to Richmond.
• In June Robert E. Lee took command.

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

• The union was going to be attacked by confederates.
• Confederates were going to attack Harpers Ferry
• The battle took place on September 17, 1862
• Lee's troops marched north.
• It was the bloodiest one day battle of the civil war in us history.

BATTLE OF SHILOH

• During the Battle Of Shiloh each side lost ground.
• They also both gained ground too.
• The union army pushed the confederates to retreat.
• This helped the union win part of the Mississippi River.

THE SEIGE OF VICKSBURG

• The Seige of Vicksburg lasted about six weeks.
• It didn't last long because people were starving.
• So the confederates surrendered.
• So that means that the Mississippi River was under union control
• Vicksburg was located on a cliff over the Mississippi River

EMANCIPATION PROCLOMATION

• Emancipation proclamation means the announcement of freedom
• Lincoln thought that one way to weaken the south was to free slaves.
• Lincoln presented the emancipation Proclomation after the the battle of Antietam.

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

• It was an important speech that Lincoln spoke.
• On November 19, 1863 the Gettysburg address was delivered.
• Lincoln presented a new cemetery
• The cemetery was called the Gettysburg cemetery.