The North Wins

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The North Wins

• Thanks to victories, Beginning with Gettysburg
  and ending with Richmond, The Union Survived

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Key Terms and Key People

• Vocabulary
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Picketts Charge
• Siege of Vicksburg
• Appomattox Court House

• Key People
• Ulysses S Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• William Tecumseh Sherman

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• Abraham Lincoln replaced McClellan with Ambrose
  Burnside as General but Burnside led 12,600
  troops to their death at Fredericksburg
• John Hooker replaced Burnside as General but he
  was defeated at Chancellorsville by Lee with half
  as many troops
• Stonewall Jackson would be killed after the
  battle but Lee would plan to invade the North
  again to force peace talks and gain European
  Support

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LEEve us Alone

• As Lee crossed into Philadelphia, the Three day
  Battle of Gettysburg would begin with 90,000
  union Troops and 75,000 Confederates
• As Both Sides tried to hold position Lee ordered
  13,000 troops to storm the middle of the union
  line
• After Picketts Charge Lee would lead his men in
  retreat but the North would not Finish him off
• The North Lost 23,000 men in the Battle with the
  South Losing 28,000 men as Lincoln looked for a
  man to defeat Lee

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Taken for Grant-ed

• Ulysses S. Grant defeated the South at the Siege
  of Vicksburg after opening up the Mississippi
  River to the North
• Grant would Surround Vicksburg to Starve out the
  Soldiers who would surrender fulfilling the
  Anaconda Plan
• With the South Split in two the union had an
  advantage in the War and Lincoln would place
  Grant in a position to defeat Lee

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Merry Christmas Mr. President

• As Grant went after Lee in Virginia, William
  Tecumseh Sherman would push through Atlanta to
  the Atlantic Coast
• Sherman would wage Total War, destroying
  everything in his path leading to Atlanta
• Shermans Victory in Atlanta would be a Boost to
  the Union but also lead to the Reelection of
  Lincoln as President
• Sherman Brought hope to a quick end to the war
  and delivered Lincoln Savannah on the Georgia
  Coast

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Total Control

• After Shermans Victory in Georgia he would march
  North to meet Grant in Virginia where he had been
  fighting a Brutal War
• Grant Would lose 17,000 men in the Battle of the
  Wilderness but would not retreat
• The war would continue in Spotsylvania and Cold
  Harbor where 7,000 of Grants troops would die
  fighting
• The war would settle in at Petersburg and lead to
  10 months of fighting
• Grant would have Richmond surrounded and Lee
  would retreat and at 8pm on April 3rd, the union
  would Control Richmond

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Mission Accomplished

• Though Lee wanted to keep fighting, he knew there
  was no hope and would Surrender on April 9th,
  1865 at Appomattox Court House
• Grant offered up a Generous Surrender, letting
  the Southern Troops march home in peace
• After 4 long years of Fighting the Civil War
  would be over

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