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The Fall of Vicksburg

The Fall of Vicksburg. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was important because it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and cut the South in half. The North’s Reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation. It was praised.

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The Fall of Vicksburg

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  1. The Fall of Vicksburg The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was important because it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and cut the South in half.

  2. The North’s Reactionto the Emancipation Proclamation • It was praised. • Northern Democrats opposed it because they only wanted to restore the Union, not to end slavery • Abolitionists argued that Lincoln had not gone far enough still leaving “slavery, as a system . . . , still to exist in all the so-called loyal Slave States.”

  3. TheEmancipationProclamation

  4. The Southern View of Emancipation

  5. Emancipation in 1863

  6. African American and Women’s Contributions to the War • participated in military service • served in the workforce • women provided medical care and ran plantations and farms

  7. African-Americans in Civil War Battles

  8. The Famous 54th Massachusetts

  9. Importance of the Battle of Gettysburg • It was a major turning point because General Lee never again entered the North. • This Union victory took place on the same day as General Grant’s capture of Vicksburg in Mississippi. • Both these critical victories made northerners believe that the Confederacy could be defeated.

  10. The Road to Gettysburg: 1863

  11. Gettysburg Casualties

  12. that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. • Abe Lincoln

  13. Campaigns Launched inVirginia and Lower South • Wilderness Campaign – May-June 1864 • Battle of Cold Harbor – June 1-3, 1864 • Battle in Atlanta – Atlanta fell to General Sherman on September 2, 1864 • Sherman’s March to the Sea – ended December 10, 1864 when Sherman reached Savannah, Georgia

  14. Sherman’sMarchthroughGeorgiato theSea, 1864

  15. The End of the Civil War • Trapped and defenseless in Richmond, Virginia, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. • The Civil War had come to an end.

  16. Appomattox CourthouseApril 9th, 1865 • General Robert E. Lee (Confederacy) Surrendering to: Ulysses S. Grant (Union) • Meeting lasted 1 ½ hours • The Confederates were to return home with dignity and respect McLean Home

  17. … More Surrendering!! Confederate: Joseph Johnston Union: William T. Sherman Bennitt Place

  18. After four bloody years of civil war, the South was defeated.

  19. Casualties on Both Sides

  20. Over 618,000 military deaths during Civil War.

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