The Tide of War Turns

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The Tide of War Turns

• Chapter 19
• Section 5

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The Battle of Gettysburg

• Lee won 2 victories Chancellorsville
  Vicksburg.
• Lee cut across MD into PA Gettysburg.
• Battle of Gettysburg began July 1, 1863.
• 28,000 Confederate casualties 23,000 Union
  casualties.
• Lee retreated never returned north.
• Same day Grant captured Vicksburg - MS

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A Turning Point

• Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863
• Lincoln spoke of the importance of liberty,
  equality, and democratic ideals.
• Page 607

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Grants Drive to Richmond

• Wilderness Campaign series of battles in
  northern and central VA.
• Union lost twice as many casualties.
• Grant kept pushing on, but could not take
  Richmond.

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Sherman Strikes the South

• William Tecumseh Sherman marched with 100,000
  men from TN to GA.
• Goal to take Atlanta.
• Waged total war destroying civilian and army
  supplies, railroads, bridges, livestock.
• Sherman felt this would cripple the South ending
  the war.

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The South Surrenders

• Lee retreated from Richmond. By April 1865 Lee
  was surrounded and forced to surrender.
• Signed the surrender documents, ending the long
  bloody war on Sunday, April 9, 1865.
• I feltsad and depressed at the downfall of a
  foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had
  suffered so much for a cause, though that cause
  was, I believe, one of the worst for which a
  people ever fought. Ulysses S. Grant