Turning Point in the War

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Turning Point in the War
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The High Cost of War

• Over 620, 000 casualties
• 1000s permanently disabled
• Families lost husbands, fathers, sons
• Some southern towns lost 1/3 to ½ of males over
  16
• Many fighting( dying) ages 15-21
• TX sent 60,000 men (of the approx 90,000
  non-slave men in TX) 20,000 died
• Terrys Texas Rangers lost 2/3 of the unit

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Turning Points in the war

• Vicksburg, MS
• The Union wanted to gain control of the
  Mississippi River to split the Confederacy in
  half and limit the delivery of food and munitions
  from the west.
• Vicksburg, MS, was the last key point in gaining
  control of the Mississippi Valley.

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• Grant began a siege of Vicksburg in May, 1863.
  The people of Vicksburg and the Confederate army
  around Vicksburg held out for over a month under
  severe conditions (people dug into caves on the
  riverbank and lived under constant shelling
  eating river rats and chewing leather when food
  ran out).

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• Finally, the Rebel army surrendered on July 2,
  1863.
• Grant had no way to keep over 50,000 soldiers
  prisoners, so he sent them home with a promise
  not to fight again. Few kept that promise.

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Turning Points in the war

• Gettysburg, PA
• General Robert E. Lee went into Northern
  territory in Pennsylvania. He had 75,000 soldiers
  on this march north from Virginia.
• The Confederate and Union armies fought for three
  days. More than 52,000 men died. Lee retreated
  with over 1/3 of his army dead, including many of
  his generals.

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• Lees Army of Northern Virginia one of the key
  Confederate fighting forces never recovered
  from the losses.
• Later, President Lincoln delivered his famous
  Gettysburg Address at a service to commemorate
  this battlefield as a cemetery for all who died
  there.

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• Vicksburg and Gettysburg constituted the virtual
  end of the Confederacy however fierce fighting
  continued for 2 more years

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