Ch.17 Lesson 2 Early years of the war

Ch.17 Lesson 2 Early years of the war

First battle of Bull Run

• Confederate and Union soldiers believed the war would be short and each side felt they would win an easy short war

• Battle of 1st Bull Run fought in Virginia was first major battle of war. Confederate army wins and drives the Union army back to Washington D.C.

• Confederate soldiers rally behind Gen Thomas Jackson who "stood strong like a stone wall against the Union advance" giving him the nick name Stonewall Jackson.

Multiple Choice

The Confederate army won the First Battle of Bull Run

• True

• False

War in the West

• fought in Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.

• Union wanted to control the Mississippi River to cut the Confederacy in half.

• Union army led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captures Confederate Fort Donelson and becomes a hero in the North

Multiple Choice

Which river did the Union navy need to gain control of to cut the Confederacy in half?

• Potomac River

• Chattanooga River

• Mississippi River

• Red River

Monitor vs. Merrimack

• Both were ironclads, the Monitor (union) took on the Merrimack (confederate) on March.9th

• neither ship really won but the battle raised spirits for both North and South

• First time two ships made of iron battle each other

Battle of Shiloh 1862

• Confederate army in Tennessee launched a huge surprise attack at Grants Union army near Shiloh church.

• Confederates are led by Gen Albert Johnston and almost achieve victory

• Grant gets reinforcements just in time to stop the Confederate attack and saves his army

• Confederates retreat into Mississippi

Multiple Choice

After the battle of Shiloh, this Union Gen. is credited with saving his army from defeat

• Joseph Johnston

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E Lee

• Andrew Burnside

Union captures New Orleans Louisiana

• Union naval forces led by David Farragut capture the largest city in the South New Orleans on April. 25 1862

• Confederates lost a very important port city now and cant trade or receive supplies through New Orleans.

• Confederates still hold on the Vicksburg Mississippi

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War in the East - Virginia and Maryland

• Confederate armies under Robert E Lee are winning major victories around Virginia

• Union armies are not under good leadership and although they are larger in size, fail to capture Lee and the Confederate army

• Gen. Lee invades Maryland with the Confederate army and strikes the Union army at Antietam.

Multiple Choice

This general took command of the Confederate armies in Virginia and invaded Maryland

• Robert Anderson

• James Longstreet

• Robert E Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

Antietam - bloodiest single day of the war

• Confederate forces led by Robert E Lee fight the Union army on Sept. 17, 1862 at Antietam. Union army pushes Confederates back but both sides lost 6,000 dead and 17,000 wounded.

• Robert E Lee retreats back into Virginia with his worn out Confederate army and the Union claims a costly victory

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Emancipation Proclamation

• Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves in the Confederacy on Jan. 1 1863

• Border states with the Union were allowed to keep their slaves

• Where ever the Union army went in the south, slaves would be liberated and freed.

• Union is now fighting to bring the U.S. back together and to free the slaves in the south

Multiple Choice

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all of the slaves in the United States

• True

• False