Union Success

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Union Success
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Vicksburg

• last CSA fort on the MS River
• Grant decided the fort would be easier to take
  from the Southwest
• Grants troops marched 180 miles in 17 days
  fought 5 battles
• decided to cut off food supplies
• siege lasted almost 2 months
• ended July 4, 1863

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Leading to Gettysburg

• Lincoln upset with McClellan after Antietam b/c
  he had chance to destroy Lees army
• McClellan fired and then Lincoln goes through 2
  more generals quickly
• Burnside Hooker

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Battle of Gettysburg

• Lee invaded the North, went to PA
• Gen. Meade now in charge
• 2 armies met in the hills outside of town
• Lee ordered 15,000 men to push forward, known as
  Picketts Charge
• 1 mile wide
• 7,000 casualties in less than 30 min.

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Gettysburg cont.

• Battle lasted 3 days (July 1-3)
• Casualties
• Union 23,000
• CSA 28,000 (1/3 of Lees army)
• Union victory was turning point in war

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Gettysburg Address

• November 1863
• Lincoln came to dedicate battlefield to the
  memory of the soldiers who fought there
• said the war was a battle for freedom

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Ulysses S. Grant

• Battle of Chattanooga
• Important railroad from TN to Atlanta
• Union would now be able to invade GA
• General in Chief
• 2 important victories
• 1st Lt. General since Washington