Civil War/ Reconstruction

President of the Confederate States of America.

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S Grant

• Robert E Lee

Opposed to slavery and secession but could not fight against his home state of Virginia.  Commander of the Confederate forces.

• Ulysses S Grant

• Robert E Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

President of the Union during the Civil War.

• Robert E Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S Grant

• Jefferson Davis

United States General during the Civil War.

• Robert E Lee

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S Grant

•Opening shots of the Civil War. 

• Antietam

• Bull Run

• Ft Sumter

• Gettysburg

First battle of the Civil War.  Showed it would be a long and costly war.

• Antietam

• Bull run

• Gettysburg

• Ft Sumter

•Single bloodiest day of the Civil War.

• Emancipation proclamation

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Ft Sumter

Lincoln decided to write the Emancipation Proclamation after the battle

• Antietam

• Bull Run

• Ft Sumter

• Gettysburg

Turning point of the Civil War.  Robert E. Lee’s invasion of the north was turned back by the Army on the Potomac in July 1863.

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Appomatox

The country should have a new birth of freedom.  The government “of the people, by the people, and for the people shall be preserved.”  Dedication of a national cemetery.

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Appomatox

• Bull Run