Major Battles of the Civil War

Battle of Antietam

• September 17, 1862• George B. McClellan (USA) vs.

Robert E. Lee (CSA)

• Union Victory• Lee’s 1st invasion of the North, Lee Retreats• 23,000 casualties total• Bloodiest single day in battle in American

History

Antietam• Click to Add Text

Emancipation Proclamation“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."

Battle of Fredericksburg

• December 13, 1862• Ambrose Burnside (USA) vs. Robert E. Lee

(CSA)• Confederate Victory• Rebs were picking off Yanks trying to build

bridge• 13,000 Union casualties• 5,000 Confederate casualties

Fredricksburg

Battle of Chancellorsville

• May 1, 1863• Joe Hooker (USA) vs. Robert E. Lee (CSA)• Confederate Victory• Lee’s greatest victory• 17,000 Union casualties• 14,000 Confederate casualties

Chancellorsville

Battle of Gettysburg

• July 1-3, 1863• George Meade (USA) vs. Robert E. Lee (CSA)• Union victory• Destroys 1/3 of Lee’s forces• Last Confederate invasion of the North• 51,000 casualties total

Gettysburg

Gettysburg Address• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4bM9ge

Y0do• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_XfqyojjJ

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Did you know the Gettysburg Address…

• Is only 9 sentences long• Has fewer than 300 words• Was delivered in less than 3 minutes• 3/4 of the words are one syllable• 92% of the words have no more than two

syllables• Only four words with more than 10 letters:

– Proposition, altogether, dedicated, consecrated

Battle of Vicksburg

• July 4, 1863 – date of surrender• U.S. Grant (USA) vs. John Pemberton (CSA)• Union Victory• Grant laid siege for 2 months, people eating

rats to stay alive• 30,000 confederates and Pemberton

surrender

Vicksburg

Emancipation Proclamation Activity

1. Read through the document2. Highlight any words you do not know3. Look up those words and choose synonyms

you do know4. Rewrite the Emancipation Proclamation in your

own words

Union Strategy in the West 1861 - 18651. Mississippi River Campaigns, 1861-632. Campaign to Secure Missouri, 1861-623. Operations against Chattanooga, 1861-634. Red River Campaign, 18645. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, 18646. Sherman's Savannah Campaign (March to the Sea) 18647. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign, 1865