Chapter 9 Section 2

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Chapter 9 Section 2

• The Early Stages

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First Battle of Bull Run

• 25 miles south of Washington D.C.
• Lincoln was hoping an Union victory would lead to
  a quick end to the conflict
• At first Union pushed Confederates back from
  their position behind Bull Run River
• Confederate leader Stonewall Jackson from VA held
  the line

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First Battle of Bull Run

• Union retreated
• Confederate Victory
• North would need large well trained army to win
  conflict
• New bill for enlistment of 500,000 men
• Militia Act gave Lincoln the authority to call
  state militias into federal service

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Naval War, Blockade, New Orleans

• Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of all Confederate
  ports
• 1862- Every southern harbor on Atlantic was
  sealed except Charleston Wilmington
• Southern Blockade Runners- smuggled goods for
  trade with Europe
• David Farragut takes control of Souths largest
  city and center of cotton trade-New Orleans

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Battle of Shiloh

• Tennessee near the Mississippi border- 20 miles
  north of Corinth- near a church named Shiloh-
  Union led by Grant
• Confederate launched surprise attack on Grants
  troops
• Grant assembled defensive line that held off
  repeated Southern attacks
• 20,000 troops were killed or wounded

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Battle of Murfreesboro

• Confederate leader- Braxton Bragg
• Bragg took troops into KY
• Union leader General Buell stopped Braggs forces
  at the Battle of Perryville
• Lincoln replaced Buell with Rosecrans
• Braggs forces attacked
• Battle ended inconclusively

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Yorktown Seven Days Battle

• George McClellan took 30 days to capture Yorktown
  allowing Confederates to regroup
• Robert E. Lee began series of attacks on
  McClellan's army in Seven Days Battle
• Lee unable to defeat Union army
• McClellan retreated to James River
• Both sides suffered more than 30,000 causalities

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Second Battle of Bull Run

• South forced North to retreat
• Confederates only 20 miles from Washington
• Word arrived in the White House that Lees forces
  crossed into Maryland and begun an invasion of
  the North

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The Battle of Antietam

• Lee decided to invade Maryland
• Wanted to convince North to accept Souths
  independence
• Victory on Northern soil would convince British
  to recognize the South
• Help Peace democrats to win control of Congress
• Lee could feed his troops from Northern farms

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The Battle of Antietam

• Draw Union troops out of Virginia during harvest
  season
• Fought between Lee and McClellan's forces
• The bloodiest one day battle in the war and in
  American history-6,000 men killed and 16,000
  wounded
• Lee retreated to VA
• Victory for the Union

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The Battle of Antietam

• British would have intervened as a mediator if
  the South had won the battle and would have
  recognized the Confederacy in the event that the
  North rejected mediation.
• British waited after Union victory
• Lincoln decided time had come to end slavery

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The Emancipation Proclamation

• Write a 25 word GIST on the Emancipation
  Proclamation