CIVIL WAR

FORT SUMTER

• Fort Sumter was taken over by the confederates

THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN

• Was the first major battle of the civil war
• The confederates won
• Known as the first battle of Manassas
• It lowered the North's confidence of winning the war.

ANTIETAM

• Also known as the battle of Sharpsburg
• Was the bloodiest single day battle of the civil war

BATTLE OF SHILOH

• The battle lasted two days
• Each side lost and gained ground
• The union won

BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• The Union won
• The Union gained control of the Mississippi River
• Ulysses S. Grant was the Union general
• The battle lasted six weeks

CLARA BARTON

• She helped wounded soldiers
• She started the American Red Cross

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESSS

• Abraham Lincoln wrote it on the back of an envelope
• It inspired many people
• Lincoln's renewal commitment to winning the war
• It helped delicate a new seminary in Gettysburg