The Civil WarFour Bloody Years

Battle of Bull Run

• Southern victory due to superior organization

• Union troops panicked and ran

• Showed that the war would be long and bloody

Stonewall Jackson

Battle of Antietam

• General Lee marched his troops to Maryland

• More than 23,000 Union and Confederate troops were killed

• North “won”, but suffered huge losses

Ulysses S. Grant

Total War

• Ulysses S. Grant• Destroy the South's

ability to fight• Ordered Union army

to destroy food, equipment, anything!

Confederate Victories

• Battle of Fredericksburg

• Battle of Chancellorsville

• General Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire

Battle of Shiloh

• Bloodiest battles of the war

• North won and controlled the Mississippi

• South could no longer use the river as a supply line

Gettysburg

• 1863• Left more than 50,000

dead or wounded• Ceremony to dedicate

the fallen Lincoln read the Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address

• Civil War was a test to whether or not a democratic nation could survive

• Reminded people that all men are created equal