Transcript The civil War 1863-1865

Battle of Fredericksburg

One of the biggest
battles of the war.

The Union commander
Ambrose Burnside was
replaced 6 weeks after
the battle for such
lopsided losses.
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Union losses: 13,353
Confederate losses:
4,576
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Lincoln’s Command Problem

Irwin McDowell

George B. McClellan

Ambrose E. Burnside
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Joseph Hooker

George Meade

Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Chancellorsville,
April 30-May 6 1863

Lee and the
Confederates beat
Joseph Hooker’s
Army of the
Potomac.

Stonewall Jackson
was killed by friendly
fire in this battle.
Gettysburg Aftermath,
July 1-3, 1863

About 50,000
Americans were
killed.
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Lee was forced to
retreat.
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He would fight
defensively the rest
of the war.
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The day after
Vicksburg fell to the
North.
Fall of Vicksburg
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The last Southern
stronghold on the
Mississippi river was
Vicksburg.
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General Grant laid
siege to the city and
it fell on July 4, 1863.
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The South was then
finally severed.
Politics of 1864
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Many northerners opposed the war and
wanted peace, they were known as
Copperheads.
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They opposed the draft, the war, Lincoln,
and emancipation.

The Republicans disbanded shortly to
become the Union party. George McClellan
ran as the Democratic candidate.
Chattanooga

In November of
1863 the North
won a victory at
Lookout Mountain
pushing all
Confederate
forces out of TN.
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Shortly after Grant
was named
General in Chief
of all Union
forces.
Total War
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In the summer of
1864 William T.
Sherman burned
Atlanta and then
marched to the sea.

Grant constantly
pursued Lee
inflicting heavy
losses.
Grant and Lee
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Starting in May of 1864, Grant began
attacking Lee’s forces during the Battle of
the Wilderness.
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Lee was then sieged at Petersburg, VA
from June 9, 1864-March 25, 1865; more
trench warfare than an actual siege.
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Lee escaped only to have his army
destroyed and split by Union forces.
Surrender at Appomattox

On April 9, 1865
Lee surrendered to
Grant at
Appomattox
Courthouse.
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Other armies
remained
throughout the
south for several
weeks.
Lincoln Assassination

John Wilkes Booth was a Confederate
sympathizer from Maryland.
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He was an actor throughout the war and
had been paid by the Confederacy to
kidnap Lincoln.
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After the war Booth decided to kill Lincoln
as well as Andrew Johnson and William H.
Seward.
Gist
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Pg. 478
Read Pg. 440-441

Write a couple paragraphs comparing
and contrasting the similarities and
differences between the Northern and
Southern soldiers during the Civil War.