CIVIL WAR BATTLES, 18621863

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CIVIL WARBATTLES, 1862-1863
Fredericksburg, Virginia (December 16, 1862)

• Union Army outnumbered
• Confederates
• Confederates were entrenched
• and could not be overcome
• Union forces devastated the town
• Confederate victory
• 1,284 Union dead
• 9,600 Union wounded
• 608 Confederate dead
• 4,116 Confederate wounded

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CIVIL WARBATTLES, 1862-1863
Chancellorsville, Virginia (April 30-May 6, 1863)

• Lees Army attacked the Union
• Army from two sides
• Confederate victory
• 1,574 Union dead
• 9,554 Union wounded
• 1,683 Confederate dead
• 9,277 Confederate wounded
• Stonewall Jackson shot by his own
• troops by accident, and died the
• following week

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CIVIL WARBATTLES, 1862-1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1-3, 1863)

• Robert E. Lees greatest loss
• Became the turning point of the
• war
• Confederates won the first two
• days
• Picketts charge on 7/3 lost
• 12,000 of Lees 14,000 troops

• Union victory
• 3,070 Union dead
• 14,497 Union wounded
• 2,592 Confederate dead
• 12,706 Confederate wounded
• Lee pulled his army out the morning
• of 7/4, and never returned to the North

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CIVIL WARBATTLES, 1862-1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi (May 18 July 4, 1863)

• Became known as Siege of Vicksburg
• Union troops, under General Ulysses S.
• Grant, surrounded 3 sides of town
• Union ironclad ships bombarded the city
• from the Mississippi River
• By end of June, Confederate troops were
• sick and starving
• Vicksburg surrendered on 7/4
• Union victory
• 545 Union dead
• 3,688 Union wounded
• 21,275 Confederate dead wounded
• The North now controlled the Mississippi

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CIVIL WARGRANTS NEW PLAN

• General Ulysses S. Grant
• Army of the Potomac to crush
• Lees army of Northern Virginia
• Cut off Richmond, Virginia

• General William Tecumseh Sherman
• Western army to crush Confederate
• forces in the deep South

Battle of Cold Harbor near Richmond
Battle for Atlanta, Georgia
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CIVIL WARLINCOLNS 1864 ELECTION

• Grant stuck outside Richmond
• Sherman stuck outside Atlanta
• Democrats in Congress pushed for
• peace with the South
• Great changes took place
• Union naval fleet controlled
• Gulf of Mexico in August
• Sherman captured Atlanta in
• September
• Rebel forces driven out of
• Shenandoah Valley in October
• Lincoln reelected in November

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CIVIL WARTOTAL WAR
Shermans March to the Sea

• After leaving Atlanta, Shermans
• army
• abandoned its supplies,
• living off the land
• tore up railroad lines and
• fields
• killed livestock
• destroyed everything in its
• path
• Captured Savannah, Georgia on
• December 21, 1864
• Turned north and devastated
• South Carolina

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CIVIL WARBATTLES , 1861-1862
ANTIETAM (Maryland) September 17, 1862

• bloodiest single day of battle
• in Americas history
• -- 2,010 Union dead
• -- 9,416 Union wounded
• -- 1,512 Confederate dead
• -- 7,816 Confederate wounded
• Confederate defeat which prevented
• Gen. Lee from convincing Britain
• to support the South

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CIVIL WARSURRENDER
Appomatox Court House, April 9, 1865

• Lees army escaped from Richmond,
• April 2
• Richmond captured the same day
• Lee realized all was hopeless
• Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant on
• April 9, 1865 at Appomatox Court
• House, Virginia
• Grants surrender terms
• Confederate soldiers to lay down
• their arms, then go home
• Soldiers allowed to keep horses
• 3 days worth of food sent to
• hungry Confederate troops

Lee surrenders to Grant in the McLean home
at Appomatox Court House, Virginia
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TWO FAMOUS LINCOLNSPEECHES
1. Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth, upon 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
here on a great battlefield of that war. We have
come to dedicate a portion of it 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. But
in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can
not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled,
here, have consecrated it far above our poor
power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember, what we say here, but
can never forget what they did here. It is for
us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so
nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us -
that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they here gave
the last full measure of devotion - that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain that this nation shall have a new
birth of freedom and that this government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
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TWO FAMOUS LINCOLNSPEECHES
Excerpt from Lincolns Second Inaugural Address
"With malice toward none with charity for all
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to
see the right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in to bind up the nations wounds
to care for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow, and his orphanto do all which
may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting
peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."