US.G.linchoi.peek Through American CIvil War

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Picturepeek

throughAmerican Civil War

Lin Choi

US History

Block G

November 9th, 2011


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Table of Contents

1. The beginning and preparation2. Leaders

a.PGT Beauregardb. John C. Pemberton

c. Henry Wirz3. Battles

a.7 Days Battleb. Antietam

c. Fredericksburg4. Minority Engagement

5. Camp Life

6. Life on the Home front

7. Effects of the War8. Reconstruction

9. Bibliography


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The beginning and preparation

The United States is divided into two :The United States of America &The Confederate States of America

ResourcesNorth>South

in everything including

firearms, weapons, ships, an

iron production

Why?industrialized North vs. agricultural South

As for the

Confederacy...

100,000 volunteers to serve for

welve months

Not enough arms to equip them

roperly

Had to turn down some 20, 000

men due to the lack of resources


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P.G.T.

Beauregard

Pierre Gustave Toutant

Beauregard

(1818-1893)

*Resigns from the U.S. Army and

offers service to the Confederacy

* Organized to resist the authority

of the federal government

* In charge of the defenses of

Charlestone, S.C.

* Orderd to Virginia soon after -in command of the battle ofBull Run (July 21)

* Smart tactics and strategy, buthad bad relationship with President

Jefferson Davis, thus resulting in

bad state

* One of the few southern men who

stayed wealthy even after the Civil

War


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John C.

Pemberton

* Pennsylvanian

* served with the army in almost all

american wars against -Mexican -Mormons -Seminoles -on the frontier* Defense of Vicksburg&keeping

army intact* Failed to do neither well

* Surrenders to the Army

* Returns to Virginia later on and

live a quite life

(1814-1881)


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Henry Wirz(1822-1865)

* Born in Zurih, Switzerland

* Joined the Confederate Army; gets

wounded at the battle at Fair Oaks

* Became a clerk at Libby Prison in

Richmond* Soon promoted to rank of major

* After secret mission to England &

France, joins General John Henry

Winder, person in charge of all prisoners

east of the Mississippi

* Appointed as commandant of the new

Andersonville Prison

* Found guilty on 6th of

November and sentenced to

death as wanton cruelty

* Executed in the same yard

where those who assassinated

Abraham Lincoln had died

* Alexander Gardner records the

event* The gallows drop failed to kill

him instantly; took him two

minutes to die

* The first war criminal ever to

get executed


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7 Days

Battle

*A series of six major battles over the seven

days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near

Richmond, Virginia

* General Robert Lee drove the invading

army of the North away from Richmond

* Lees success prolonged the war

*Let the southerners keep dignity and pride

even after the war by the fact that they

fought well against the better equipped&

trained North

Battle of Oak Grove > Battle of Beaver Dam Creek

> Battle of Gaines Mill > Battle of Garnetts &

Goldings Farm > Battle of Savages Station >

Battle of White Oak Swamp > Battle of Glendale >

Battle of Malvern Hill

Out of 92000 men...

Total 3,494 killed, 15,758 wounded, and 952

missing/captured

Leading General:

Robert E Lee (South) &


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Antietam

* The bloodiest war in American Civil War

* Known as Battle of Sharpsburg in the

South

* Despite of more numbers, McClellans

attack failed and allowed General Lee to

counter.

* However, because of this battle, Lees

gain of Maryland ended, and he was ableto withdraw the army back to Virginia.

* This battle gave Abraham Lincoln the

confidence to announce the Emancipation

Proclamation.

Under Robert E Lee

Total 38,000 men

Casualties and losses: 10,316 men 1,546 killed 7,752 wounded 1,018 missing/captured


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FredericksburgAlso known as Maryes Heights

December 11-15, 1862

* Burnside sends a corps to occupy Falmouth

near Fredericksburg.

* Lee reacts by putting his army on the heights

behind the town

* Union troops wait in front of the river for overtwo weeks to lay the pontoon bridges across the

Rappahannock

* South kills multiple union generals

* Burnside calls off the offensive and retreats

* Tries a new offensive in January, but fails;

gets replaced by General Hooker

Forces Engaged: 72,497

EstimateCasualties: 4,576


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Minority Engagement

* Confederate Army soon runs out

of the volunteer soldiers due to the

multiple series of battles

* Many African Americans are

forced to work in the army, or fight

as a soldier

* Some are promised freedom or

land after the war.

* Slaves were often drafted as

soldiers or slaves in the war front to

make food and etc.

Northern nurse Clara Barton

known as the american nightingale


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Life of

Americans

Camp life during the Civil

War was very primative.

Housing was mostly of

tents, with log insulation

used in winter months.

Meals were cooked outside

Many died of disease and

infection rather than getting kil

in the battlefield.

*Since all men were gone off to the army, including the slaves and

freedmen, women had to take over the farming and taking care of the

family.

*They worked outside like men, and took care of the family business while

the men were gone.


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Effects

of the

War

* The American Civil War ends

* Southern states are brought back to Union

* Many southern generals and public officials get

trials in the court; Henry Wirz gets executed as the

first war criminal in the American History

* Slavery is officially abolished by the 13th

amendment

* Abraham Lincoln announces the EmancipationProclamation

* South loses everything; their dollars dont worth

anything anymore, and only thing the plantation

owners have are barrel lands

* Reconstruction starts


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ReconstructionLincolns 10% Plan

* Southern people will

be represented back into

the Union.

* Will have to get

enough vote for it

* Economic plans to

help the fallen South

* However, Abraham

Lincoln is assasinated by

John Wilkes Booth

* Slaves are freed

* Lots of lands, but

no slaves result in

share farming and

tenant farming

*Form of Ku Klax

Klan, targeting the

republicans who

supported the

Northerners

*Many Southern

banks go on a

economic crisis

due to the drop of

cotton prices


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