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Anaconda Plan
Goals: It called for strangling the Southern Confederacy, much like an Anaconda
Leaders: General Winfield Scott
Results: was never officially adopted, it did serve as a framework for what eventually occurred throughout the Civil War. -
Ft. Sumter
Goals: For the Confederates to take Fort Sumter from the Union.
Leaders:
Union: Major Robert Anderson
Conferates: Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard
Results: The Union had to withdraw and the South got control of the fort. The Civil War began. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
Goals: Union wanted to capture Richmond
Leaders:
Union: General Irvin S. McDowell
Confederates: Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard
Results: The Confederates won because McDowell’s army retreated -
Antietam
Goals: Robert E. Lee wanted to carry the war into the Northern states and then George McClellan went to Maryland to stop him.
Leaders:
Union: George B McClellan
Confederates: Robert E Lee
Results: The Union claimed victory, but in reality, both sides retreated. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Goals: The Union wanted to go to Richmond
Leaders:
Union: General Ambrose Burnside
Confederates: General Robert E. Lee
Results: The Confederates won. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was created by Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves would be freed in the states that had seceded. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Goals: Hooker went to follow through his campaign, but went into defense at the “Wilderness”.
Leaders:
Union: General Joseph Hooker
Confederates: Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Results: The Confederates won and Hooker escaped. -
Atlanta Campaign
Goals: to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines
Leaders: William Sherman, John Bell, Joseph Johnson, Joseph Wheeler, William J. Hardee
Results: James B. McPherson was killed during the battle. Also important because of the commercial and location importance of Atlanta itself. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Goals: maintain complete control of the southern portion of the river.
Leaders: Ulysses S. Grant, John C. Pemberton.
Results: On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Goals: most important engagement of the American Civil War, considered turning point.
Leaders: Robert E. Lee, George Meade, Winfield Hancock
Results: stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Goals: James B. McPherson was killed during the battle.
Leaders: William Sherman, William J. Hardee, Joseph Wheeler.
Results: On September 1, 1864,Sherman and his army captured Atlanta, Georgia, an important transportation center in the Confederacy.