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Thesis Statement: The Civil War and its ramifications greatly influenced both the North and South politically, socially, and economically. The outcome of the war would determine the future of America for years to come.



A Union soldier waits ominously for a battle to begin. Charleston, SC was almost entirely destroyed following Sherman's march. A Union fortification. The troops mobilize. More mobilization. Officers of the 13th Pennsylvania Infantry. A dead Confederate soldier lies unattended. The medical practices used during the Civil war would be considered crude by today's standards. Before the invention of tanks and trucks, horseback was the only way to travel during wartime. The New York State Militia Band. Gen. U.S. Grant and his men. An infantry of negro troops. Gen. Robert E. Lee Ambrose Burnside: "Dude, that guy some WICKED chops..." --Mr. McElwan

Lee poses with some of his subordinates. A painting of the interior of Ford's Theater. A haggard-looking Abraham Lincoln shows great signs of aging from four years of war. Soon after this photograph was taken; Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Confederacy President and former-U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis. A cartoon depicting outcomes of the 15th Amendment. Promotional Ad for the Freedmen's Bureau. A Racsist cartoon promoting White Supremacy and demoting the Freedmen's Bureau. A cartoon poking fun at ALL of the candidates of the election of 1860. A U.S. Gunboat travels down the Mississippi. A slave ship en-route to the States. The first-known photograph of the White House. A poster premoting Manifest Destiny.

National Women's Convention in Chicago. Devastation in the South. The end of the Old South, the end of "King Cotton". A political cartoon poking fun at the Election of 1860. A cartoon predicts the eventual collapse of the South. Advertising the Ratification of the 15th Amendment. Another Union fort. More devastation. "Two-Faced" Abe Lincoln. President Lincoln meets with his cabinet members. More mobilization. The South proudly flies its newly-independent flag. Members of Congress are ridiculed in this cartoon. Democratic National Convention of 1860. The Fifteenth Amendment. A group of soldiers bunker-down behind a man-made wall. Refugees stayed with soldiers in their camps.

Monument to the Civil War A carton criticizing Jeff Davis and Andersonville Prison. A much-younger Abe Lincoln. A southern cartoonist heavily criticizes the Northern Abolition Movement. Even MORE Union fortifications. A cartoon questions the credibility of Congress and Reconstruction. Sherman's March out to sea. A sketch of the famous scene of the death of President Lincoln. The end of slavery... ...and the beginning of Reconstruction. The Inauguration and Assassination of President Lincoln. A secret meeting among southern sympathizers. == A Northern City celebrates after the end of the war.

A Union fortification under construction.

Lincoln's funeral car. Newly-freed persons hide out in the Wilderness.

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Speeches: Gettysburg Address- "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."--Abraham Lincoln

President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address- "Fellow Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it -- all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war -- seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope -- fervently do we pray -- that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."--Abraham Lincoln

 