B7: Events and People of the Civil War

brings the Civil War to a close as Confederate General Lee surrendered his forces of Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant

• APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

• BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

• BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

• EMANCIAPTION PROCLAMTION

I was a war hero and one of the Confederacy’s most successful generals during the American Civil War. I served under Lee and later died by friendly fire.

• "STONEWALL" JACKSON

• WILLIAM SHERMAN

• PHILIP BAZAAR

• ULYSSES S. GRANT

I was President of the Confederate States of America. I did not really want to be President, but rather commander of the army.

• JEFFERSON DAVIS

• ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• ROBERT E. LEE

• WILLIAM CARNEY

Northern voters overwhelmingly elect him when winning the 1864 election and a second term. Any hope for a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy vanished.

• LINCOLN'S

  RE-ELECTED

• SHERMAN'S MARCH TO SEA

• APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

• EMANCIPATION PROCLOMATION

 this Union victory was the turning point of the Civil War; located in Pennsylvania

• BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

• BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• BATTLE OF BULL RUN

• FORT SUMTER

first battle of the Civil War to take place on Northern soil  September,1862. I am the bloodiest one day battle in American history with 23,000 casualties. The Union wins and builds confidence, leading President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

• BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• FORT SUMTER

• APPOTMATTOX COURTHOUSE

fought on July 21, 1861 in Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. It showed the Union that the Confederates could stand up for themselves.

• BATTLE OF BULLE RUN

• BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

• BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

 this Union victory allowed them to gain control of the Mississippi River and divided the Southern states. This occurred at the same time as the Union victory at Gettysburg

• BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

• BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

• SHERMAN'S MARCH TO SEA

• BATTLE OF BULL RUN

changed the nature of the war from preserving the Union to freeing the slaves. It freed only the slaves in the rebelling Southern states.

• EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

• APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE

• SHERMAN'S MARCH TO SEA

• LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION

A Union fort in Charleston Harbor that was fired upon by Confederate forces. The Civil war has begun!

• FORT SUMTER

• LINCOLN'S

  RE-ELECTED

• SHERMAN'S MARCH TO SEA

• BATTLE OF ANTIETAM