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Fredericksburg

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Burnside out numbered Lee

Burnside tried to cross a river

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Ft. Sumter

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April, 1861
Start of the war
Robert Lee offered command

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Antietam

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September, 1862
Sharpsburg Maryland
Bloodiest day in American history
Turning point
Allowed for the Emancipation Proclamation
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Emancipation Proclamation

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September, 1862
Effective January, 1863
Made the war a war to free the slaves
Kept Britain out of the war

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Gettysburg

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July 1,2,3 , 1863
Day 2 - Chamberlain
Day 3 - Picket’s charge

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Appomattox

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April 9, 1865
Ended the war
Virginia

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Effects of the union blockade

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Stopped importation in the south

Made south desperate for victory

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Lincoln

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North

President

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Jefferson Davis

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South

President

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Lee

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South

General

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Stonewall Jackson

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South

Thomas Jackson

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McClellan

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North

Northern general

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David Farragut

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North

Naval commander that captured New Orleans

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US Grant

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North
Unconstitutional surrender
Important battles in the West

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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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North
Hero of Day 2 at Gettysburg
Little round top

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George Picket

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North
Leader or Picket Charge
Day 3 Gettysburg

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Border States

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Maryland
Missouri
Kentucky
Delaware
West Virginia
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18
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Southern purpose of invading north

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To force Lincoln to negotiate peace

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Jomini strategy

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Name for tactics that got so many killed

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Importance of Chancellorsville

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May 1863
Lee’s masterpierce
Showed Lee’s military superiority
Stonewall dies

21
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Sherman’s march to the sea

“total war”

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Atlanta to Savana
“War is all hell”
Resentment in the south for the north

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Lincoln’s biggest problem in conducting war

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Finding a general

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Lincoln’s stated purpose of the war at outset

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This is a war to save the union

“My paramount object in this struggle is to ave the union”

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Effects of the emancipation proclamation

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Changed the purpose of the war
Kept Britain out of the war
Antietam

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Vicksburg
May 1863 Cuts the confederacy in half "The father of waters again flows unvexed to the sea"
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"The fiction of secession"
Lincoln didn't think the south could secede
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Lincoln's plan for restoring the union
"With malice towards none, with charity for all" | Don't kill anyone
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War of attrition
Cold Harbor | Grant vs Lee
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"I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free"
House divided speech
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"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living hear and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, an surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
First Inaugural Adress
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"My trust in him is marrow deep"
On Grant
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"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history"
1862 Annual message to congress
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"The father of Waters again flows unvexed to the sea."
Vicksburg, Mississippi
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"With malice towards non, with charity for all..."
Second Inaugural adress
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"...the great task remaining before us...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom..."
Gettysburg adress
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"Those who enjoy freedom and deny it to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it."
Letter to Henry Pierce
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"The struggles of today are not altogether for today."
Annual message to congress 1861
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"We can succeed only by concert..."
1862 Annual message to congress
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"I cannot spare this man, he fights"
On Grant
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"Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other."
Quoting Euclid
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"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray..."
Second inaugural adress
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"It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work..."
Gettysburg adress
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"If A can prove, however conclusively..."
Notes 1854
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South advantages
Needed a draw to win Knew the land Leadership Diplomacy (Britain wanted cotton and might come into war because America is weaker)
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North advantages
``` Two million troops A navy (For blockade) Agriculture (Food) Rivers for invasion routes 90% of industry 80% of banks 75% of railroads 75% of wealth ```
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Cold Harbor
13,500 union casualties | 8,000 in eight minutes
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Wilderness campaign
54,000 union casualties

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