Gettysburg

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Gettysburg
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The Armies

• Union Major General George Gordon Meade's Army of
  the Potomac
• Combined 94,000 men. (a cavalry corps, seven
  infantry corps, and an artillery reserve)

Major General Meade
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The Armies

• Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of
  Northern Virginia
• Combined 75,000-men (three army corps under
  Longstreet, Ewell, and A.P. Hill, with a cavalry
  division under J.E.B. Stuart.)

General Robert E. Lee
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Day 1

• Confederate troops attack the Union cavalry
  division on McPherson Ridge.
• Out-numbered, the Union forces managed to hold
  until the afternoon, but they were overpowered by
  additional southern troops.

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Day 2

• Union forces on Cemetery Ridge face Confederate
  forces on Seminary Ridge.
• In the south, James Longstreet held his ground at
  the Peach Orchard
• To the north, Confederate attacks prove futile
  against the entrenched Union on East Cemetery
  Hill and Culp's Hill

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Day 3

• A massed infantry assault of 15,000 Confederate
  troops across the open field toward the Union
  center on Cemetery Ridge a mile away. Pickett's
  men reached the line but failed to break it.
• 10,000 Confederates died in Picketts Charge in
  50 minutes.

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Casualties

• The overall loss of life is estimated at
  46,000-51,000.
• Union casualties were 23,055 (3,155 killed,
  14,531 wounded, 5,369 captured or missing)
• Confederate casualties unsure, but estimated at
  28,000

Aftermath
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Turning Point of the War

• Lees exhausted and defeated troops were forced
  back to Virginia. Gettysburg would mark the last
  time the Confederates made it to Northern soil.
• Lees aura of invincibility was broken.
• Lee tried to hand in his resignation after the
  loss, but Jefferson Davis refused it.

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Success for the North

• The North was rejuvenated by the victories at
  Gettysburg (July 3) and Vicksburg (July 4).
• The war was losing popularity in the North until
  the victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
• The chance for foreign aid for the South was lost
  because foreign nations felt the Confederacy
  could not defeat the North.

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Gettysburg Address

• Four score 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 battle-field 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.