Highlights of the War between the States

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The Furnace of Civil War

• Highlights of the War between the States

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1st BULL RUN

• Confederate Victory
• Proved war would not be quick and painless
• 2nd Bull Run
• Another confederate victory in which Lee began
  campaign to invade the north
• Hoped to convince border states to join
  Confederacy

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Antietam

• Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War
• Union Victory
• Assured Europe would stay out of war
• Turning point of the war
• Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

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Gettysburg

• Pickets Charge
• Confederate disaster
• Last hope for Lee to invade north
• Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

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William Shermans March

• Captured Atlanta
• Total War
• March to the Sea

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Ulysses S. Grant

• Ruthlessly used his greatest resource manpower
• Wilderness battles in Virginia against Lee end at
  Appomatox Courthouse
• Lee surrenders

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The Aftermath

• The Civil War cost 600,000 men, 15 billion
  dollars
• Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
• American democracy survived