Transcript The War Continues - LOUISVILLE

Section 16.4:
The War Continues
• President Lincoln know that the victory at Antietam
had been important
• He issued a warning to the Confederate States
– He said he would free all enslaved people in those states if
the states did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863
• The Southern states did not
think he would do it
• To their surprise, on Jan 1 in
1863, President Lincoln wrote
the Emancipation Proclamation
declaring that all enslaved
people in the seceded states
were free
What Runaway Slaves Did
• By the end of the war, nearly 180,000
former enslaved people had enlisted in
the army and fought against the
Confederacy
• Twenty-Three (23) African soldiers won
the Medal of Honor for bravery
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
• General Joseph Hooker had intended
to keep an army at Fredericksburg to
keep General Lee busy while attacking
Chancellorsville at the same time
• General Lee heard of the planned
attack and left a small army at Fredericksburg and
went to meet Hooker at Chancellorsville
• Lee’s and General Jackson’s soldiers easily
defeated a much larger Union army
• During the battle at Chancellorsville, Stonewall
Jackson was accidentally shot and wounded by his
own men and died 8 days later
• General Lee’s original plan had been to
fight a defensive war
• Now, the war was not going well for the
South in the western states
• Lee thought about sending soldiers to
win back the West
– He felt one major victory in the North
would bring an end to the war
• Lee decided to attack the North
– He made his way into Pennsylvania with an
army of about 65,000 well-trained soldiers
• General George G. Meade’s
Union army in Pennsylvania
numbered almost 85,000
• The two armies prepared
for battle near Gettysburg
• On July 1, 1863, Lee
attacked Gettysburg
– The battled continued for 3 days
• Lee sent General George Pickett
with 13,000 soldiers to charge the
Union line
– The line moved back, but it did
not break
– Slowly, Meade’s army forced the
Confederates back
• The South lost the battle at Gettysburg, and Lee
retreated to the Potomac River
• Gettysburg was the turning point of the war
• Four months after the
Battle of Gettysburg,
President Lincoln
dedicated a national
cemetery for those who
died there
– Speech was known as the Gettysburg Address
7.4 PowerPoint Questions
1.) The ___ declared that slaves were free in the
states that had seceded.
2.) General ___ wanted to keep an army at
Fredericksburg and attack Chancellorsville.
3.) General ___ was wounded at a battle fought
at Chancellorsville.
4.) General ___ forced the Confederates back at
Gettysburg.
5.) The Union army won a battle at ___.
C.T.) Why do you think so many Africans were
willing to fight in the Civil War?