The American Civil War's Important Battles and Leaders

Hello, this is Jake White here coming

with the project for today and

projects. My embedded video that

How do you explain it to my class?

But just having, just have me kind of talking, you know,

if you can't see my face all the time, it just helps having

a voice to hear while going through it. So for today's lesson, it's about

the american civil war leaders and battles and these are

just some of the most important battles that have in

and just some of the most important leaders that were involved in the civil war.

So I have two pictures from here, you know, just

there

about the same page, just to show

just like how gruesome this battle was literally you're fighting your brother,

you lived in

brothers from the south from the north are fighting each other and

that's just how it goes. This is just what what it was at the time.

And

so we move on to our

first point. My face gets a little blocked sometimes, I'm sorry.

But

so

the first topic here,

we have some of the important battles that happened in the civil war.

So these battles are the most important that were

fought during the course of the american civil war.

Without these battles, you know,

there's

not a lot like,

like these battles really set the table of the war and kind of turn the tides,

especially for the union.

And even at the beginning for the confederates,

like these victories were huge for them and allowed to push for

more victories later in the battle and it just got

morale through the roof of some of these victories.

So the first battle that we're talking about is the Battle of Bull Run. Now.

This was,

this was the first battle of Bull Run was the first battle

of Bull Run was the first major battle of the civil war.

This is kind of where it all started and the confederates and the winning this battle

just because

of the war, the Union

and the north was more of a manufacturing,

the north was more about manufacturing and business side of things

and the south, you know,

these boys have been growing up shooting guns their whole

life so they kinda already knew how to fight.

And just a lot of

confederate generals were just better

in terms of

war coming from the mexican american war.

So, and they were all more southern states.

So they kind of advantage there at the beginning until

they won and they had a lot of casualties.

Union casualties were 2000 states. Confederate casualties were about 1900

and

for the Union,

their plan was way too complex for the young soldiers they had and there

and they're, they're right their ranks,

they didn't understand the battle tactics yet before, like ready to be in the war.

Um

like

even with them not knowing what to do,

they were still able to push the confederates back and it kind

of looks like the Union was going to take the battle,

but

one of the most famous part of the battle happened,

Henry House Hill and it was on the hill

that confederate Colonel thomas, Jackson, Stonewall, Jackson,

his forces were there.

That was kind of worried

that how does the game for

withstanding the Union troops and they won this battle?

And this is really significant for the confederates to

get them around around the beginning of the war.

And I just entered the map of just kind of just to show where Polaroid is in comparison

to America at the time where they're fighting.

So then the next

we're going to do next is the battle goes for a

lot of people probably heard of the battle of Gettysburg.

It took place in Gettysburg Virginia.

And the battle was fought from july 1st and third in 1963 and

this was one

by union forces.

Um This involved the largest number of casualties

of the entire world combined for both sides.

Uh this was the biggest battle of the war

for the Union. This was a huge turning point.

This victory Union was down down in the trenches, you know,

losing battle at the battle of the battle and then it came into Gettysburg because

uh robert E lee was very close to getting to Washington and this

is his last major stop to get through before getting to Washington.

That would have turned out a little better for the Union.

So they just had to muster up what everywhere else they had

fought in the battle.

You know, over 100,000 soldiers took place to combat in both sides.

20,000 total men died that day, either died or wounded, captured or missing.

So, you know,

I have another map here that shows like the battle strategy of the union in south.

So as you can see, the,

the south was

days within recent Virginia

or

Washington,

the capital and, but the units to the ground and held them back.

So then the last of the major battles that you guys should know is the Battle of

Antietam. So the Battle of Antietam,

it's known as the bodies to endure soil.

Uh, this was a union victory. A much needed union victory. Um,

There's about 12,400 Union casualties and 10,700 Confederate casualties.

Now, as I previously stated in the other slide,

Ginsberg had the most people part of it.

But

the Battle of Antietam had the most people die in a day.

So

the union, pretty much even though they're outnumbered,

they drove the remaining confederates in the battlefield to end their invasion.

And this is another reason this victory was super important for

the union was President Lincoln was waiting for something for something

that happened from the union to issue the emancipation proclamation,

which started the freeing of slaves and you had to wait for something

big to happen and as soon as the Union one this weekend,

this was huge for them.

So as soon as that just helped them uh, promote that.

So now as you can see,

shoot, sorry.

So now

we're gonna go on to the most important leaders during the civil war. These men,

um,

these leaders are some of the most renowned

for the respective size and of course is the american civil war.

Uh,

these men influenced the war in different ways of building like you

see off of off of their actions during the civil war.

So on the picture there, on the left of Abraham, Lincoln and ulysses?

S grant to respective men for the union side and the right.

You have Frederick David, Jonathan, Davis and

bobby lee the tourist respective amendments for the left.

But today I want to talk about three the real military generals.

The first one started with thomas. Stonewall. Jackson, Stonewall.

Jackson was a confederate general under robert E lee.

He led confederate troops at the first

Battle of Bull Run Antietam and fredericksburg.

You know, Jackson being such a great leader,

unfortunately died by being shot by his own

troops on accident at the belt channels Chancellorsville

and at the time, military medicine was

not as good as it is today. So

they couldn't

amputate bola and he just had died of blood loss and infection.

But

how Jackson got his nickname was at the battle of Bull Run,

the first battle of Bull run,

there was a bridging the gap and the defensive line against the attack,

one of the union generals, General Bernard Eby was very impressed in the shower.

There's a Jack, there is Jackson standing like a stone wall.

So obviously Jackson held his troops like a stone wall at the first battle of Bull Run

and he, that's how he got his nickname.

And after that he was promoted to major general

for his courage and quick thinking on the battlefield.

Uh, the next important leader we have is ulysses S Grant.

So you listen to this, Grant was up.

I had general for the Union Army. He fought in the mexican american war.

Prior to the Civil war's already had some

military background already going into being a leader.

Grant lead the union troops. The major victories at Vicksburg,

what he did at Vicksburg was

so the confederates were kind of hunkered down

in bunkers and there's railroads around, they running out of supplies

and they had nothing left. So

ulysses s Grant Grant plan was to destroy all the railroads so that nothing can get

into them and it's pretty much starve them out and that worked and starved them out.

And there's a huge victory coming towards the end of the civil war

and then after another civil war, you know,

Grant early respect from the union troops

and president Lincoln before he was assassinated and

He was elected to be the 18th president of

the United States and served from 1869 to 1877,

2 terms.

And then on July 23, 1885,

just after completing some of his memoirs about the civil war,

uh, you'll see that Grant dies from throat cancer.

And one of the last major leaders that you should know about is robert E. Lee

are really was the overall commander of the confederate army.

Like Grant lee also found the mexican american war.

Giving him that military background. That was much

for general at the time of the civil war. Is a lot of them

the new military strategy and tactics and just like being around fighting to tell

a fact about lee was that he was actually offered

a position to be in the Union Army after,

uh, like seven of the southern states seceded.

But he declined it because he wanted to stay

with wherever his home state of Virginia was at

and they were more leaning towards the south so that

he decided to become a general for the south,

um lila, the confederate army, the major victories, a Chancellor,

Chancellorsville, fredericksburg and then the second battle of Bull Run

um, robert E lee's last major campaign was at the Battle of Gettysburg,

in which he lost, which

again,

like I stated before if they won that they would have

been in Washington and probably ended up winning some more.

But the units stood tall,

won that battle for him

and then

October told 1870 Robert nearly died as hell in Lexington Virginia.

Where just because he had complications following a stroke,

which he suffered from two weeks prior to that.

And then yeah, that's it. That

back to my face here, you can see it finally. But yeah,

it's a good thing I think for

students to understand

that these very important battles, why they happened,

what happened during them and who won the casualties

and just the important leaders and what they did during the battles.

That became a little background about like

a little like how do they build their legacy?

And I just think it's important for students to

understand and know that part of the civil war.

You know, there's other battles and things listening that are considered major.

But to me,

I think these are the three main men that you need

to know the three major battles that are really important.

So thank you.

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