The War in the East

By: Danny TestinConor Albian

Frank ConfortiAnd Connor Kaplan

War in Virginia

By: Conor Albianhttp://www.robinsonlibrary.com/america/unitedstates/1861/campaigns/east.htm

Battle of Bull Run• Fought in 1861 next to Bull Run creek in ManassasoUnion- 35,000 menoConfederate- 22,000 men

• Confederate Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard and his troops waited for Union Gen. Irvin McDowell and his troops at a Bull Run Creek.• Union troops tried to find a way around the Confederates.• During that time, the Confederates gained 10,000 more men

Conor Albian

The Battle• Union troops crossed the creek and saw Gen. Thomas

Jackson standing like a stone wall.oHe later got the nickname Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

• Confederate troops moved forward and attacked the Union.• The Union could not fight back so they were forced to

retreat.• The Confederates won and this became known as the First

Battle of Bull Run.

Conor Albian

Conor Albian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run

Conor Albian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson

More Battles in Virginia

By: Frank Conforti

After the shock at Bull Run Lincoln looked to have a better army, he decided would he put General George B. McClellan in charge McClellan assembled a force of 100,000 soldiers called the Army

of the Potomac Spring of 1862- McClellan launched an effort to capture Richmond

called “Peninsular Campaign” To prevent McClellan from receiving reinforcements from

Washington Stonewall Jackson launched an attack towards Washington

Confederate army in Virginia was under the command of General Robert E. Lee. Lee attacked Union forces in series of clashes called Seven Days’

Battles and forced Union army to retreat in June 1862Frank Conforti

After Lee saved Richmond and forced McClellan to retreat, Lincoln ordered General John Pope to march directly on Richmond

Jackson’s troops met Pope’s Union forces on the battlefield in August in 1862. The three-day battle became known as the Second Battle of Bull Run, or the Second Battle of Manassas The first day was a savage and ended in a stalemate On the second day, Pope found Jackson’s troops and hurled his

men against the Confederates but the attacks were pushed back due to casualties on both sides

On the third day, the Confederates crushed Union’s army’s assault and forced it to retreat in defeat

Frank Conforti

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Robert E Lee

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George B. McClellan

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The Battle of AntietamBy: Danny Testin

•Subsections

1.Before the Battle2.Aftereffects

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Antietam_Overview.png

Danny Testin

Before the Fighting• September 4, 1862- about 40,000 barely trained confederate

soldiers begin crossing into Maryland• Gen. Robert E. Lee divides this army

o Sends half to Harpers Ferry They defeat Union forces and capture the town

o Lee goes to Fredrick and urged them to join confederates They wouldn’t abandon the union

• Gen. McClellan hesitates attack when he learns of Lee planning to attack Harper’s Ferry; Confederates then had time to reunite their army

Aftereffects•Armies met Sept. 17, 1862

oUnion suffered more than 12,000 casualtiesoConfederates suffered 13,000+ casualtiesoBattle stopped Lee’s advance into the NorthoBloodiest single-day battle in United States

historyoIt was also called the battle of SharpsburgoBattle lasted for hours and became the

bloodiest battle in United States history Danny Testin

The Battle of Antietam gave the North a slight advantage. • Confederate leaders wanted to follow Lee’s victories in Virginia

with victory on northern soil.

• Lee’s Confederate troops and McClellan’s Union army met along Antietam Creek in Maryland on September 17, 1862.

• The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history, with more than 12,000 Union and 13,000 Confederate casualties.• Also called the Battle of Sharpsburg

• It was an important victory for the Union, stopping Lee’s northward advance.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Battle_of_Antietam.png Danny Testin

Main Idea 3: Breaking the Unions

Blockade

By Connor Kaplan

Subtitles• The Unions Naval strategy • Clash of the Ironclads

The Union’s Naval Strategy• Union’s navy quickly set up a blockade of southern ports.• Blockade prevented the South from selling or receiving goods.• Blockade hard to maintain because Navy had to patrol from Virginia to Texas.• Blockade reduced the number of ships entering southern ports from 6,000 ships

to 800 ships a year.South's Naval Strategy• South used small, fast ships called blockade runners to outrun larger slower

Union warships.• These runners would go to Bahamas or Nassau to buy supplies.• Runners could still not make up for the South's loss of trade.

By Connor Kaplan

Blockade RunnerBy Connor Kaplan

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Clash of the Ironclads• Hoping to take away the Unions advantage at sea, Confederates creates new type

of ship called the Ironclad.• Confederates captured Union steamship and turned it into a Ironclad• Ironclad heavily armored with iron.• Soldiers described them as a huge half submerged crocodile.• March 1862 the Ironclad Virginia sunk 2 Union ships and damaged a smaller one.• John Ericsson designed Union Ironclad• Ironclad called the Monitor much smaller than confederates Virginia• Virginia and Monitor came to blows and fought for several hours• Smaller Monitor had more powerful weapons and forced Virginia to withdraw• Clash of the Ironclads signaled a revolution in Naval warfare

By Connor Kaplan

By Connor Kaplan

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By Connor Kaplan

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http://wn.com/ironclad_ships#2

By Connor Kaplan

BibliographyUnited States History beginnings to 1877. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

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