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Important Differences

Important Differences. Nort. South. Population: 9 million (4 million were slaves) 9,000 miles of railroad track Industrial production valued at $155 million No navy at beginning of war Long military tradition, many competent military leaders Jefferson Davis. Population: 22 million

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Important Differences

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  1. Important Differences Nort South Population: 9 million (4 million were slaves) 9,000 miles of railroad track Industrial production valued at $155 million No navy at beginning of war Long military tradition, many competent military leaders Jefferson Davis • Population: 22 million • 22,000 miles of railroad track • Industrial production valued at $1.5 billion • Large navy • Difficulty finding a competent general to lead the army • Abraham Lincoln

  2. WAR! • April 12, 1861 Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, SC • April 13, 1861 Major Anderson surrendered the Fort to the confederate army • President Lincoln called for troops in order to engage the Confederate Army • The two armies met on July 21, 1861 at Manassas Junction, VA • Unexpected bloody battle ensued • Northern army ran back to Washington, D.C. • nearly 5,000 casualties in one day

  3. New Strategy • During the first two years of the war, north was unsuccessful on the battlefield • Yorktown • Fredericksburg • Chancellorsville • Anaconda Strategy: proposed to Lincoln by General Winfield Scott, squeeze the south and cut it off militarily • Blockade • North went through a number of generals that could not defeat Robert E. Lee’s southern army until General Grant was chosen for the job • Emancipation Proclamation 1862

  4. Turning the Tide • Gettysburg, PA (July 1863) • Gen. Lee planned to invade the north • Great failure for Lee • Sherman’s March • Plan to march through Georgia and cut-off the rest of the south from its capital • Wave of Destruction • Burning of Atlanta • Sherman Bowties • Taking Richmond 1865 • General Grant’s army surrounded Richmond • Siege of Petersburg • Burned the city

  5. Horror of War • Huge casualities • Over 620,000 by end of war • New machinery more deadly than ever before • Gangrene • Prison Camps

  6. Women in the Civil War • Served as nurses • Clara Barton • Sewed uniforms and flags • Took care of farms and businesses while men away • Spies • Rose O’Neal Greenhow • Posed as men to fight in the war

  7. Surrender • Lee abandoned Richmond • Last battle fought at Appomattox Court House • Surrender April 9, 1865 in the home of Wilmer McLean • Terms of surrender: • Confederates could go home with fire arms and horses • Lee would go free

  8. Aftermath • Northerners wanted the south to pay for the war • Hang Jefferson Davis • Lincoln wanted leniency for the south • 13th amendment: end of slavery (1865) • 14th amendment: extended federal legal protections equally to citizens regardless of race • 15th amendment: abolished racial restrictions on voting • Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth April 14, 1865

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