Under a Blue-Gray Sky

The Beginning
 Ft. Sumter
 Union Fort
 Confederacy fires first
 April 12, 1861, 4:30 a.m
 34 Hours Bombardment
 P.G.T. Beauregard
 Bull Run
 Bull Run

 July, 1861

 Southern Victory
-P.G.T. Beauregard

 Civilian Observers
-Thought war would be
over quick
-Horrified by actuality
 Shiloh
 April 1862
 Surprise Attack from
Confederate Forces.
 Victory for North
-Ulysses S. Grant
 Both sides realize the
war would not be
short.
-Costliest in U.S. history up to
that time
 Antietam
 Sept 1862

 Commanders
-General Lee
-General McClellan

 Victory for Union

-Gives Lincoln confidence
to announce the
Emancipation
Proclamation.
 Emancipation Proclamation
 Freed all slaves living in
Confederate States

 Thousands of slaves fled

 Only applied in
Confederate States
-Did not effect the Border States

 Did not make slavery

illegal
-13th Amendment
 Vicksburg
 November 1862

 Fortress city that

dominated the last
Confederate-controlled
section of the Mississippi
River.

 Tries to split the South

 Gen. Grant captures city 14

Months later
 Confederate Victories
 Fredericksburg
-December 1862
 Chancerllorsville
-May 1863
 Confederates
outnumbered and
still win.
 Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson
 Gettysburg
 July 1863
 Lee invades the North
 Pickett’s Charge
 Union wins
 Turning point of the
war
 Lincoln consecrates
battlefield cemetery
with famous speech.
 The End of the War
 Sherman’s March to the
Sea
-Gen. George Sherman
-Burning of Atlanta

 Grant chases Lee’s armies

 April 1865 Grant finally
traps Lee at Richmond

 Lee Surrenders at
Appomattox Courthouse