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Advantages and Disadvantages, Military Strategies of Each Side
The Union used a 3 part plan which was to block the Southern Ports, Union would use the river to divide the Confederacy, and finally they would capture the Confederate Capital. The Confederates plan was to survive so it was mainly defensive but would go on the offensive if seen fit. -
Medicine of the Civil War
The gross condition of camps during the civil war was changed when the USSC taught soldiers how to not pollute the water and developed hospital trains to help transport the wounded. -
Fort Sumter
This was a battle fought between the Union and the Confederates at South Carolina. Lincoln sent supplies and it allowed the South to make the first move. Thus it showed the South as the aggressor. There were no casualties during the Confederates bombing. -
Secession of Virginia
Virginia was unwilling to fight against other Southern states so it decided to secede. This caused the states of Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina to secede too in May. -
Battle of Bull Run
First major battle of the Civil War. They ended up fighting for 10 hours. The union army lost 2,896 men. The Confederate army lost 1,987. The Confederates won. They fought in Virginia. -
Battle of Shiloh
General Grant decided to attack the South's railroads in Tennessee. The Union lost 13,047 men. The Confederates lost 10,694. Grant learned the South would not be pushovers. -
Battle of Richmond
This was a battle in Kentucky. The Union lost 5,353 men. the Confederates lost 451 men. The Confederates won and it allowed them to launch the Kentucky Campaign. -
Battle of Antietam
It was the bloodiest day of the war. The union lost 12,410 men. The Confederates lost 13,724. This battle allowed Lincoln to make the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued this so that only slaves behind Confederate lines were free so, slaves on the North were still slaves. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This was fought at Gettysburg near a shoe factory. The Confederate's wanted new shoes. This was the last attempt the South would do to invade the North. The Union won but lost 3,155 men. The Confederates lost 3,155 men. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln gave a speech that lasted less than 2 minutes. This speech united the Union states. -
Surrender at Appomattox
This took place at Richmond and is where the Union took hold of the Confederate capital. It is here where Robert E. Lee finally surrenders to Grant. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln and his wife were at the Ford's Theater in Washington when a man, named John Wilkes Booth, went in there and shot Lincoln.
