J. Kelly Robison

The American Civil War

  1. Introduction
    1. Ft. Sumter
    2. The Upper South Secedes
  2. The Ledger
    1. North
      1. Advantages
      2. Disadvantages
    2. South
      1. Advantages
      2. Disadvantages
    3. Objectives
      1. South
      2. North
  3. The First Modern War?
    1. Armaments
    2. Medicine - certainly not modern
    3. Total War
  4. The Battlefield
    1. The Eastern Theater
      1. Bull Run
      2. McClellan's Waiting game
      3. Penninsula Campaign
      4. Second Bull Run
      5. Antietam
      6. Fredericksburg
    2. The Western Theater
      1. Grant in Tennessee
        1. Ft. Henry
        2. Ft. Donelson
        3. Shiloh
  5. Emancipation
    1. Confiscation Act of 1861
    2. Confiscation Act of 1862
    3. Emancipation Proclamation
  6. The Faltering Confederacy
    1. Chancellorsville
    2. Vicksburg
    3. Gettysburg
    4. Chattanooga
      1. Chickamauga
    5. Grant in Virginia
    6. Sherman's March to the Sea
      1. The Burning of Atlanta
      2. Savannah
  7. The South's Defeat
    1. Appomattox
  8. Conclusions

Significant Terms:

writ of habeas corpus First Confiscation Act border states
Emancipation Proclamation First Bull Run Antietam
Shiloh George McClellan Vicksburg
Gettysburg Sherman's March to the Sea Monitor & Merrimack
Matthew Brady Robert E. Lee William Tecumseh Sherman
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Study Questions:

Explain why three of the following battles were important turning points in the war: Antietam, Appomattox, First Bull Run, Gettysburg, Vicksburg

The Civil War has sometimes been called the "first modern war." Why?

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