The African American's Legacy During the Civil War Era

I. INTRODUCTION

II. CULTURE OF THE SLAVES

• A. Religion

• B. Literature

• C. Music

• D. Slavery in the North

III. The Influence of Blacks in the Civil War

• A. The Catalytic Beginnings

  • 1. Dred Scott Decision
  • 2. Abolitionists
    • a. Harriet Tubman
    • b. Frederick Douglass
  • 3. Secession

• B. The Union

  • 1. Black Troops
    • a. 54th Regiment
  • 2. White Commanders
    • a. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

• C. The Confederacy

  • 1. Captured Black Soldiers

• D. Major Battles of the Civil War

  • 1. Fort Sumter
  • 2. The First Bull Run, or Manassas
  • 3. The Moniter and the Merrimack
  • 4. The Second Bull Run
  • 5. Antietam, or Sharpsburg
    • a. Emancipation Proclamation
  • 6. Fredicksburg
  • 7. Chancellorsville
  • 8. Gettysburg
    • a. Gettysburg Address
  • 9. Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing
  • 10. Perryville
  • 11. Vicksburg
  • 12. Sherman's March

• E. The Surrender of the Confederacy

  • 1. Appomattox

• F. Local Involvement

  • 1. Fort Fisher
  • 2. Surrender of Wilmington

• G. Consequences of the War

• H. Questions and Answers

IV. Bibliography

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