2. November 7, 1862
• President Trivia-some say this
Lincoln is where we get the
word sideburns!
replaced
McClellan
with Gen.
Ambrose
Burnside

3. Dec.13,1862 Fredericksburg
• Burnside lost
12,653 men to
Lee’s 5,309.
• Lee’s famous
quote: “It is well
that war is so
terrible, lest we
grow too fond of
it.”

4. Jan. 1, 1863 • Lincoln
issued
Emancipation
Proclamation
to free slaves
in
Confederate
states only.

5. Jan. 25, 1863
• Lincoln
posted
Joseph
Hooker to
replace
Burnside.

6. Jan. 29, 1863
• Ulysses S.
Grant was
made
Commander
of the West.

7. May 1-4, 1863 Chancellorsville, VA
• Lee outmaneu-
vered Hooker,
but lost his
“right arm”
Stonewall
Jackson to
friendly fire.

8. • After his left arm
was amputated,
Jackson’s
chaplain buried
it at Ellwood, a
nearby
plantation.
Jackson soon
died from
pneumonia.

9. June 28, 1863
• Lincoln
replaced
Hooker with
Meade, the
5th change in
command.

10. July 1-3, 1863 Gettysburg, PA
• Lee’s forces took a
devastating downward turn.

11. July 4, • Grant’s siege took
1863 its toll on the city
Vicksburg and cut off the
, MS Confederacy from
the West.

12. • Poor immigrants July 13-16, 1863
in NY protested Anti-Draft Riots
Lincoln’s draft
laws, which they
said would give
their jobs to
blacks. There was
chaos, murder,
and arson in the
streets.

13. July 18, 1863 Ft. Wagner, SC
• ½ of the 600 *The movie Glory is about Shaw and the 54th!
“negro
troops” in
the 54th
Massachuse
tts and their
commander,
Robert
Shaw, were
killed.

14. Sept. 19-20,1863 • Gen. Braxton
Chickamauga Braggs trapped
Gen.
Rosencrans’
Union troops at
Chattanooga.

15. Nov. 23-25, 1863
Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain
• Grant’s forces lifted the siege
and pushed back Bragg’s
troops at Chattanooga.

16. • Grant became March
9,
Commander of
1864
all Federal
forces.
Sherman
replaced him in
the West.

17. Sept. 2, 1864
• Sherman
took
Atlanta, a
huge blow
to the
South.

18. Nov.
15,
1864
• Sherman destroyed
warehouses, rail facilities, etc.
He began his infamous “March
to the Sea.”

19. Sherman burned Atlanta

20. Dec. 15-16, 1864 Nashville
• Feds led by
Thomas
greatly out-
numbered
and
crushed
Hood’s
forces.

21. Dec. 24, 1864
• Sherman took
Savannah and offered
it to Lincoln as a
Christmas gift.

22. March 4, 1865
John Wilkes
Booth is in
this picture,
too!
• Lincoln’s 2nd
inauguration

23. • Lee’s line of April 2, 1865
defense Petersburg,VA
crumbled
and Grant
moved the
Union army
into
Richmond.

24. April 9,
1865
• Lee surrendered at
Appomattox.

25. April 14, 1865
• President Lincoln
shot by John
Wilkes Booth in
Ford’s Theater.

26. May 1865
• Last Confederates surrendered.
Total lives lost: over 620,000.