1. CHAPTER 16:
The Civil War
Section 2:
The War in the East

2. VOCABULARY
 Flank: (noun) The side of a
military objective
 Ironclad: (noun) A ship heavily
armored with iron

3. BATTLE OF BULL RUN
 Battle of Bull Run was the first
major battle
 Also called the Battle of Manassas

4. Spectators Picnicking at the
Battle of Bull Run

5. BATTLE OF BULL RUN
 Confederates won the battle
 Ended hopes of a short war

6. Battle of Bull Run

7. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN
 Lincoln puts General George B.
McClellan in charge
of the Army of the
Potomac
• Loved by troops
• Too cautious and
slow moving

8. THE PENINSULAR
CAMPAIGN

McClellan
wants to
attack
Richmond’s
flank

9. THE PENINSULAR
CAMPAIGN

Peninsular
Campaign
goes well at
first for the
North

10. THE PENINSULAR
CAMPAIGN
 Then Robert E.
Lee is put in charge
of the Army of
Northern Virginia

11. THE PENINSULAR
CAMPAIGN
 He beats
back
McClellan in
the Seven
Days’ Battles

12. THE PENINSULAR
CAMPAIGN
 Another Confederate victory

13. 2 ndBATTLE OF
BULL RUN
 Lincoln is frustrated
 He orders General John Pope to
attack Richmond directly

14. Second Battle of Bull Run

15. 2 nd BATTLE OF
BULL RUN
 Confederates win again at the
Second Battle of Bull Run

16. BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
 Lee now wants to take the war to
the North

17. "Here is a paper with which, if I
cannot whip Bobby Lee, I will be
willing to go home."

19. BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
 Antietam is the bloodiest day in
American history
 Also called the Battle of
Sharpsburg

21. Antietam – The
Bloodiest Day in
American History

22. BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
 The fighting ends in a stalemate
 But the South is stopped from
advancing so it is a Union victory

24. Lincoln and McClellan at Antietam

25. CLASH OF THE
IRONCLADS
 South had trouble getting through
the Union blockade

26. Confederate Blockade Runner

27. CLASH OF THE
IRONCLADS
 They
built the
ironclad
Merrimack

28. CLASH OF THE
IRONCLADS
 North then built the ironclad
Monitor

29. Monitor’s Rotating Turret

30. CLASH OF THE
IRONCLADS
 First battle between two ironclads

31. The
Monitor
and the
Merrimack

32. CLASH OF THE
IRONCLADS
 Monitor forced the Merrimack to
withdraw
 Beginning of the end for wooden
ships

33. Confederate
Submarine
“Hunley”