Long Road to Victory

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Long Road to Victory

• Chapter 14, Lesson 3

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Africans join up

• After the issue of the Emancipation Proclamation,
  over 100,000 freed slaves joined to fight in the
  Union army.
• Black regiments were formed, but not given the
  supplies or pay they needed.
• African soldiers proved themselves in battle,
  even when they did not get all of the things they
  needed.

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Ulysses S. Grant

• Grant was chosen by Lincoln to lead the Union.
• He refused terms of surrender and the U.S. in his
  name came to stand for Unconditional Surrender.
• Grant led the armies in a siege at Vicksburg, MS.
  The confederate armies surrendered giving the
  Union control of the Mississippi River.

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Gettysburg

• In Pennsylvania, the battle of Gettysburg was won
  by the Union army.
• Over 3000 Union soldiers and 4000 Confederate
  soldiers were killed. 20,000 men were wounded or
  missing.
• The battle was a turning-point for the war.
• Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address,
  inspiring Americans to continue fighting to keep
  the country together. Gettysburg for Kids

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Shermans March to the Sea

• As the Union gained power, William T. Sherman
  began leading his army south from Tennessee to
  Georgia.
• He marched from Atlanta to Savannah and into the
  Carolinas leaving a path of destruction 60 miles
  wide and over 300 miles long.
• Homes and stores were burned, crops were
  destroyed, and railroad lines blown-up. More on
  General Sherman

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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

• On April 9th, 1865, Lee and Grant met in Virginia
  to sign a surrender.
• Lee was trapped and could fight no further. He
  gave his surrender to Grant, ending the Civil
  War.
• As other Southern generals heard the news, they
  too surrendered.

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Lincolns Assassination

• After the wars end, Lincoln attended a play at
  Fords Theater.
• John Wilkes Booth shot the President and ran.
  Lincoln died one day later.
• The South feared the next leader would not be
  fair. Many southerners and mourned Lincolns
  death.
• Who was John Wilkes Booth?