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Marches to Pennsylvania
Meade chases Lee keeping himself between
Confederates and Washington D.C.
Both armies collide at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Day 1
Day 1
Day 2
Day 2
Chamberlains Actions
Day 3
Day 3
Sound familiar?
Picketts Charge
Results of Gettysburg
Results of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Union Advantages
Shiloh
Two day Battle; day one Grant is surprise
attacked by Confederate General: Albert
Sidney Johnston
Union forces retreat disorganized
Re-enforcements arrive at night
Day 2 Grant attacks and pushes
Confederates back
Heavy losses on both sides
Shiloh Results
Technically a Union victory
But Grant is butchered in the
newspapers for his heavy losses
Lincoln: I cant spare this man,
he fights!
New Orleans
April 25, 1862; David
Farragut led a fleet to
Gulf of Mexico and
captured City of New
Orleans
Largest city in South;
Most important Port City
Vicksburg
Grants Strategy
Grants Strategy
Vicksburgs starving
July 4th 1863 Surrender!
Grant Wins; Union controls the Mississippi
River
Kentucky Tennessee
Campaign
Battle of Perryville
Bragg invades Kentucky and fights Union
General Don Buell
Buells overwhelming numbers force Bragg
to retreat
Kentucky never again threatened by South
Battle of
Chickamauga
Union invading from Tennessee and headed to
Georgia
River of Death
Bragg takes a stand and receives 12,000 reenforcements from Virginia
Union Army is decimated
Retreats to Chattanooga and is being Surrounded
Battle of Chattanooga
Climax of the West
Grant rewarded
and made head of
Western Theater
Grant brings
soldiers from
Vicksburg to
Chattanooga
Strategy - oops?
Grant breaks siege and attacks Confederate
Army at lookout mountain
His attacks on the flanks fail
Wants a diversion up the middle
His troops dont stop and
They over run the Southerners and win the
Results!
Braxton Bragg is replaced by Joseph J.
Johnston
Georgia is open to Invasion by North
(Union)
Lincoln Promotes Grant as head of all Union
Armies in the entire War (Leaves for D.C.)
Confederacy
Blockade Runners
Union
Vastly Better than South
Some Inflation / Shortages due to War
Most people enjoyed great Prosperity
Farms + Machinery = $$$
Factories producing Cannon / Guns for
Army
Emancipation Proclamation
Road to Appomattox
Road to Appomattox
War in Georgia
Battle of Atlanta
Forced South back
until eventually
Johnston is
replaced with
General John Hood
Hood attacked
Sherman and lost
Sherman takes
Atlanta Burning
Results
Shermans march left Georgia devastated
50-60 Miles wide, 300 Miles long of
damage
$100,000,000 of destroyed property
Shermans name was hated in the South
Election of 1864
Sherman takes
Atlanta, then
Savannah
Lincoln wins a huge
Victory!
78% of soldiers voted
for Lincoln to finish
Collapse of the
Confederacy
Richmond Falls
Appomattox Courthouse
Appomattox Cont.
A Bitter Harvest
Lincoln Assassinated
Lincolns Future
Lincoln wanted a Peaceful Reconstruction of
the South
Now without him, Reconstruction would be
rough and unfair
The South was filled with destruction,
widows, and orphans The only thing they
had was their pride
The End!
~ American Civil War ~