Under A Blue-gray Sky

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Under a Blue-Gray Sky

The Beginning 

Ft. Sumter   



Union Fort April 12, 1861, 4:30 a.m 34 Hours Bombardment

Bull Run  

 

July, 1861 Southern Victory -P.G.T. Beauregard Civilian Observers No Pursuit

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





Bloodiest single day of the war Victory for Union 

-Gives Lincoln confidence to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.

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

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.

War’s End 

Sherman’s March to the Sea -Gen. George Sherman -Burning of Atlanta



Grant chases Lee’s armies



April 1865 surrounds Richmond Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse


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