Civil War in MississippiUnit 4Coach Marbury(cdt Mrs. Bailey)

I. Government

To expand slavery or not in the United States?

Slave states vs. free states!

Missouri Compromise (1820): no slavery above the 36 degree parallel, tried to keep slave & free states equal

Compromise of 1850:CA a free state, UT & NM could vote on it (MS didn’t like this!)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854): Those 2 states could decided slave or free, repealed Comp. of 1850, supported by southerners

Dred Scott (1857): slave taken to a free state, owner died, tried to obtain freedom through courts, USSC said he was “personal property” & just b/c he entered a free state, didn’t make him free!

Slave states & the election of 1860

Southern thoughts on slavery

Slavery was a moral, economic, & political issue!

The only way to maintain the southern way of life (plantations, & slave labor) was to secede from the Union!

Election of 1860*Lincoln (R) – no expansion of slavery

Douglas (ND)

Breckinridge (SD)

Bell (CP)

*Lincoln won the election of 1860*

January 9, 1860 MS seceded from the Union

-States’ rights!

The Civil War Begins

What event launched the War?

Ft. Sumter, SC (April 1861)

A federal fort in a “southern state”

The fort ran out of supplies, Lincoln sent in troops to replace supplies

SC authorities attacked the federal troops

Lincoln sent more to put down the rebellion, which escalated the event to launch the war

South Carolina seceded, then Mississippi!

Battles in Mississippi

1862- Battle of Corinth

-loss for the Confederate forces

-deadliest battle in the war so far!

1863- Battle of Vicksburg

-important location (the MS River)

-Memphis & N.O. had already fallen

-Vicksburg had been cut off to the north & south

-Confederates were trapped in the city

-fighting lasted 6 weeks, ended July 3, 1863 with a Union victory

Battle of Jackson: (General Sherman)-burned Jackson (including the capitol)-destroyed railroads-took food & supplies

Other Battles:

Battle of Champion Hill

Battle of Raymond

Battle of Port Gibson

Sketch of Battle of

Raymond

Battle of Vicksburg