Transcript The Gettysburg Address

The Turning Point
Chapter 9
Section 4
The Battle Of Vicksburg
The battle of
Vicksburg lasted
from May 1863July1864.
The Battle of Vicksburg
General Ulysses S.
Grant and Gen.
John Pemberton
where the generals
during the Battle of
Vicksburg.
The Battle of Vicksburg
Over 30,000 men where in the war.
The Battle of Vicksburg
Port Huston is where
the battle of
Vicksburg took
place.
The Battle of Vicksburg
Vicksburg sat on a
balcony on the river
and had the chance
to shoot oncoming
enemy river boats in
both directions.
Why did President
Lincoln want the Union
army to capture
Vicksburg?
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• At about the same time Grant was fighting
in Vicksburg, Robert E. Lee was invading
the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Battle of Gettysburg
• The Battle of Gettysburg fought between
July 1 – July 3, 1863, was the battle with
the largest number of casualties in the
American Civil War and is frequently cited
as the war's turning point.
• The Battle was the turning point in the
Civil War because it almost destroyed the
Army of Northern Virginia.
Causalities
• There were heavy losses on both sides. The
Confederates had about 28,000 men killed,
wounded or missing.
• The Union had about 22,000 men killed,
wounded or missing.
• There were so many wounded men left
behind that there were 10 wounded soldiers
for every survivor in Gettysburg.
Tennessee Soldiers
• Tennessee’s Fourteenth Regiment began
the battle with 365 soldiers.
• When the battle ended, only three men had
survived.
Confederate Dead
Over 618,000 military deaths during Civil War.
What was the result
of Pickets charge?
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• On November 19,
1863, President
Lincoln went to
Gettysburg to
dedicate a cemetery
for those who had
died there.
• A crowd of 6,000
gathered for the
ceremony.
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• Lincoln gave a short speech that
lasted for less than three minutes.
• Lincoln’s speech was so short that
many people in the crowd were
disappointed.
• Lincoln thought the speech was a
“flat failure.”
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• In the years
that followed,
The Gettysburg
Address was
recognized as
one of the most
inspiring
messages ever
delivered by an
American
president.
What did the speech say?
• He spoke about the ideals of liberty
and equality on which the country had
been founded.
• He honored the soldiers who had died
defending those ideals.
• He called on Americans to try harder to
win the struggle the soldiers had died
for.
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• Four score and seven years
ago our fathers brought
forth on this continent, a
new nation, conceived in
Liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men
are created equal.
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• Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or
any nation so conceived and so
dedicated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battle-field of that
war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final
resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation
might live. It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
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• But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate
-- we can not consecrate -- we can not
hallow -- this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power
to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have thus far
so nobly advanced.
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• It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before us -- 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.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Why was capturing
Chattanooga important
to the Union?
Using the graphic organizer below to list the
results of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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