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Gettys burg. Chancellorsville Hooker vs Lee April 1863 Hooker planned to surprise Lee One part of army would attack at Fredericksburg Cavalry would attack against supply lines Main part of army would attack across Rappahannock River.

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  1. Gettysburg

  2. Chancellorsville Hookervs Lee April 1863 Hooker planned to surprise Lee One part of army would attack at Fredericksburg Cavalry would attack against supply lines Main part of army would attack across Rappahannock River Lee sent Jackson to attack at Hooker’s weak spot Hooker thought Jackson was retreating Totally surprised Union forces Background ‘Fighting Joe’ Hooker

  3. Confederates Jackson is mortally wounded, accidentally, by his own troops 13,000 troops kwm Seen as Lee’s greatest victory Union Hooker is relived of command Replaced by George G. Meade 17,000 kwm Results of Chancellorsville **Lee is given permission to attack into the North once again

  4. The Confederate Leaders • Robert E. Lee • 75,000 troops Richard Ewell James Longstreet J.E.B. Stuart A.P. Hill

  5. The Union Leaders Daniel Sickles • George Meade • 85,000 troops John Buford Joshua Chamberlain

  6. July 1, 1863 • Hill’s men searching for shoes • In reality, doing reconnaissance • Report that town is occupied by Buford’s cavalry • A. P. Hill engages Buford’s cavalry • Union hold until afternoon • Driven back to Cemetery Hill

  7. Lee orders Ewell “to follow if practicable” saw it as a suggestion and he didn’t “If I hadStonewall Jacksonat Gettysburg,I would have won that fight” Meade arrives at midnight Richard Ewell

  8. Conf forces on Seminary Ridge Union forces on Cemetery Ridge In upside-down J formation 3 miles long July 2

  9. Conf attack Union flanks • Union northern lines hold • At Culp’s Hill • Ewell came late • was ineffective

  10. Little Round Top • Union southern lines start to bend

  11. Joshua Chamberlain and 20th Maine Told to hold ground ‘at all hazards’ Men nearly out of ammunition Ordered bayonet charge Saved line from collapse Devil’s Den

  12. July 3

  13. Lee thought one last attack would finish Union army • 2 hour bombardment from nearly 140 cannon • Stuart would ride east and attack Union rear guard • Frontal assault into Union artillery

  14. Pickett’s Charge • Conf attack the center of the line • Frontal assault • March over a mile in open • Up slopes of ridge straight at Union artillery • Hand-to hand fighting • 15,000 troops • Only portions of Conf made it through • High Water Mark

  15. Pickett’s Charge • Union line begins to break • Officers drove them back to lines • Order given to charge Conf advance

  16. “Men fire into each other’s faces not five feet apart. There are bayonet thrusts, saber strokes, pistol shots, men going down on their hands and knees, spinning round like tops, throwing out their arms, gulping blood, falling, legless, armless, headless. There are ghastly heaps of dead men.”

  17. Lee retreats “It’s all my fault” Conf never recovered Last invasion of North Meade didn’t pursue Needed time to recover July 4

  18. Union Results 23,000 kwm

  19. Confederate Results • 28,000 kwm • 7,000 badly wounded • Left for Union doctors

  20. Jennie Wade • Only civilian killed • Was baking bread for Union soldiers • Shot in back through kitchen door

  21. November 19, 1863 20,000 people To dedicate ground as a cemetery Gettysburg Address

  22. Edward Everett Important scholar and president of Harvard Gave 2 hr long speech President Lincoln Invited as an afterthought Wrote 5 copies of speech 272 words 3 minutes long People applauded five times The Speakers

  23. Lincoln underestimated the value “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it cannot forget what they did here…” Accomplished two things Connected birth of US to Declaration “four score and seven years ago” “all men are created equal” Nation vs. Union UNITED States of America The Address

  24. We Do Remember

  25. Joseph Hooker Died in New York in 1879 George G. Meade Died in 1872 from pneumonia and old war wounds John Buford Died within 6 months of typhoid fever Daniel Sickles Leg was amputated; he donated it to a museum and continued to visit it Joshua Chamberlain Wounded twice; suffered from malaria Received Congressional Medal of Honor No statue of him was ever erected at Gettysburg Robert E. Lee Became President of Washington College Never officially received amnesty George Pickett Worked after the war in insurance in Virginia James Longstreet Told after the war that he would never receive amnesty, he did and went into business in New Orleans until his death in 1907 J.E.B. Stuart Mortally wounded in 1864 at Spotsylvania Courthouse A.P. Hill Killed one week before surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in fighting at Petersburg Richard Ewell Captured just weeks before the war ended Lived out his life on his Tennessee farm, until his death in 1872 Then What?

  26. Vicksburg • May 22, 1863 • Ulysses S. Grant begins siege • Cut off all supplies • Constant shelling of city • People forced to live in caves • July 4, 1863 • Pemberton surrenders after 40 days • 30,000 troops • RESULTS • Union • 3,200 killed • Gained control of Mississippi • Split Conf in half • Conf • 500 killed • Didn’t celebrate 4th of July until after World War II

  27. A Brother’s War • In the Army • Union Brigadier General Philip St. George Cooke assigned to hunt down J.E.B. Stuart, his son-in-law • Son, John Rogers Cooke, was Conf Brigadier General • Nephew, John Esten Cooke, rode with JEB Stuart • Battle of Ironclads • Frank Buchanan • Commander of Merrimac (Virginia) • McKean Buchanan • On board Congress, sunk during battle • In the White House • Mary Todd Lincoln • Aristocratic slave holding family from Kentucky • Lincoln’s 4 brothers-in-law • Served in Confederate army • General Ben Hardin Helm • Killed at Chickamunga • Border states • Henry Clay • Grandsons serving on both sides of War

  28. Remember the Titans • Anybody know what this place it? This is Gettysburg. This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fightin’ the same fight that we’re still fightin’ amongst ourselves today. • This green field right here was painted red, bubbin’ with the blood o young boys, smoke and hot lead pourin’ right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men: • “I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family.” • You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don’t come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed – just like they were. I don’t care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other. And maybe – I don’t know – maybe we’ll learn to play this fame like me.

  29. Don’t Know Much About the Civil War Kenneth C. Davis With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates The American Nation Stoff and Davidson www.us-civilwar.com www.gettysburg.com www.civilwarhome.com Resources

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