The Civil War

Ms. Legg’s 8th grade

class
 SS8H5 Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Georgia.

b. Explain Georgia’s role in the Civil War; include the

Union blockade of Georgia’s coast, the Emancipation
Proclamation, Chickamauga, Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign,
Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville.
 Essential Question
What role does Georgia have in the Civil War in reference
to the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast, the
Emancipation Proclamation, Chickamauga, Sherman’s
Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and
Andersonville?
 What impact did the American Civil War have on Georgia and the other
Southern States?
•During war, Georgia manufactured equipment for
Confederate States of America (CSA).
•Large portion of war, Georgia relatively untouched by US
forces.
•It suffered during Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign and
March to the Sea.
•After the war, Georgia’s economy was in bad shape.
 Union Blockade of GA’s Coast
•Northern war strategy—blockade

•Closed off southern ports to keep the south from exporting and importing goods.
•Close all Southern ports (using ironclads – armored ships)
•Prevent cotton exports and imports of weaponry from foreign countries.

Why is this important?

•Things changed dramatically in Georgia when the North destroyed the brick Fort Pulaski with
rifled-barrel cannon
•North was able to effectively restrict continued attempt to sneak past the Union blockade
 Emancipation Proclamation
•President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.

•Document gave the Southern Confederacy (CSA) a choice: Quit the war and keep slavery alive or
keep fighting and slaves would be forever free.

Why is this important?

•CSA continued the war
•Slaves were declared free by the United States government in 1863
 Battle of Chickamauga
•Fought in September 18-20, 1863
•Town of Chickamauga is located in Walker County just 10 miles south of the Tennessee/Georgia
line.
•Second bloodiest battle of the Civil War with over 34,000 casualties.
•The battle was the largest ever fought in the state of Georgia.

Why is this important?

•It was the largest Union defeat in the Western theater of the Civil War.
 Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign
•William T. Sherman—Union general
•Union Army fought series of battles in an
attempt to capture/destroy the important
Confederate rail and supply center of
Atlanta.
•Confederate army retreats further south
into Georgia
•June & July 1864—Dalton, Resaca, Allatoona,
Kennesaw Mountain, New Hope Church,
Atlanta
 Sherman’s March to the sea
● A sixty mile-wide area is burned, destroyed, and ruined during a two-month period
•Estimated losses exceeded $100 million
•Captured, but did not burn, Savannah in December 1864
•Union troops loaded and shipped $28 million worth of cotton, stored in Savannah, to the North

Why is this important?

•Sherman wrote to Abraham Lincoln that Savannah was his Christmas present (along with about
twenty-five thousand bales of cotton that was ultimately shipped to Northern factories).
•Civil War Ends: General Robert E. Lee’s surrendered his army at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9,
1865. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens (from GA)
flee and are captured
 Andersonville
•Andersonville Prison, in southwest Georgia
•Overcrowded, and offered poor food, contaminated water,
and poor sanitation
• 13,700 Union soldiers are buried there
•Confederate war prison where thousands of Union soldiers died
•Causes of death: dehydration, starvation, disease

Why is this important?

•With these horrible conditions, more men died (over 13,000) at Andersonville than at any other
Civil War prison.
•Captain Henry Wirtz, Andersonville Prison commander, was later hanged for “excessive cruelty”
 Works Cited
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