Civil War Outline Election of Lincoln 1860

The Angle-Day Three

1. 
   New Orleans-April l1862
   
   1. 
      Union Victory-unopposed
      
   2. 
      Union moves gunboats up the MS River
      
2. 
   Murfreesboro/Stones River
   
   1. 
      Union Victory
      
   2. 
      South retreats south
      
3. 
   Vicksburg-April 16-July 4, 1863
   
   1. 
      Key MS port and rail junction
      
   2. 
      Union Victory
      
4. 
   Port Hudson, Louisiana, May-July, 1863
   
   1. 
      May-African American soldiers advanced over open ground in the face of deadly artillery fire. Although the attack failed, the soldiers proved their capability to withstand the heat of battle
      
   2. 
      After hearing of the fall of Vicksburg, Confederate garrison surrendered
      
   3. 
      Union in control of the Miss River
      
5. 
   Chickamauga, GA-Sept, 1863
   
   1. 
      Initial Success by South
      
   2. 
      South stopped by GenThomas “the rock of Chickamauga”
      
   3. 
      Union retreated to Chattanooga
      
   4. 
      Rosecrans replaced by Grant who brought in reinforcements
      
6. 
   Chattanooga, Tenn-Nov, 1863
   
   1. 
      Union Victory-Grant
      
   2. 
      Brass (CSA) retreats to Georgiq
      
   3. 
      “Gateway to the Lower South”-became supply and logistics base for Sherman’s 1864 Atlanta Campaign
      
7. 
   Gettysburg Address, Nov 19, 1863
   
   1. 
      Dedicated the Battlefield as a National Cemetery
      
   2. 
      “last full measure of devotion”
      
   3. 
      “gov’t of, for, by the people”
      
8. 
   Grant Appointed Commander of All Union Forces –March 1864
   
   1. 
      Sherman – succeeds Grant in the Western Armies
      
   2. 
      May-begins massive coordinated campaign of all Union Armies
      
      1. 
         In VA-Grant begins moving toward Richmond to engage Lee
         
   3. 
      Begins a War of Attrition
      
      1. 
         Will include battles at the Wilderness (May5-6)-Union/Draw; Spotsylvania (May8-12)-Union win; Cold Harbor (June 1-3) Union called off the attack
         
9. 
   Sherman’s March to the Sea
   
   1. 
      With 100,000 men, begins an advance toward Atlanta to engage Johnston’s 60,000 men
      
   2. 
      Designed to defeat the South, destroy its economic base, break its will to resist
      
10. 
    Siege of Petersburg June 20 for 9 months
    
    1. 
       Grant delayed long enough for Lee to gather reinforcements
       
    2. 
       Petersburg did not fall until the end of the war
       
    3. 
       Atlanta-July 20-Sept 2
       
       1. 
          Sherman-“Atlanta is ours, and fairly won”
          
       2. 
          Union victory insures Lincoln’s reelection
          
11. 
    Lincoln is reelected-Nov 8
    
    1. 
       Second Inaugural-“with malice towards none, with charity for all…bind up the nation’s wounds”. March 4, 1865
       
12. 
    Sherman’s March to the Sea-Nov 15-Dec 21
    
    1. 
       Atlanta to Savannah-300 mile long path of destruction 60 miles wide
       
    2. 
       Sherman telegraphs Lincoln, offering Savannah as a Christmas present
       
13. 
    Peace Conference-Lincoln and CSA VP Stephens-meeting ends in failure, war will continue
    
14. 
    Petersburg and Richmond, April 2
    
    1. 
       After 9 months, Lee forced to retreat
       
    2. 
       Confederates burned Richmond before leaving to keep Union from getting supplies
       
    3. 
       Ambrose P Hill is killed
       
15. 
    Appomattox Courthouse, April 9
    
    1. 
       Lee surrendered to Grant (Chamberlain)
       
    2. 
       CSA allowed to keep belongings including pistols and horse and could go home
       
16. 
    Lincoln assassinated, April 14
    
    1. 
       Good Friday at Ford’s Theatre by john Wilkes Booth
       
    2. 
       Booth fatally shot 12 days later. Part of a group of co-conspirators including Lewis Powell and Lewis Payne who stabbed Sec of State Seward, who lived
       
    3. 
       8 Conspirators: 4 hung, 4 imprisoned
       
17. 
    April 26-Johnston surrendered to Sherman
    
18. 
    May 11-Jefferson Davis is captured
    
19. 
    May 26-last Confederate troops surrender
    
20. 
    Dec 16-Thirteenth Amendment is ratified. Slavery Abolished
    
1. 
   People
   
   1. 
      Frederick Douglas-former slave, abolitionist, urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in Union army
      
   2. 
      Robert E Lee: Confederate General of the Army of Northern Virginia
      
      1. 
         Opposed secession
         
      2. 
         Did not believe the Union should be held together by force
         
      3. 
         Urged Southerners to accept defeat and unite again as Americans
         
   3. 
      Stonewall Jackson
      
      1. 
         Key Confederate Military commander killed at Chancellorsville
         
   4. 
      James Longstreet
      
      1. 
         Key Confederate Military commander who led Pickett’s Charge although he opposed it
         
   5. 
      Ulysses S Grant: Union military commander who won victories over the South after several commanders had failed