Transcript The Battle of Gettysburg

The North Wins
Mrs. Enright Period 2
Chapter 17 Section 3 PowerPoint
Outline
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What Happened so far
Lee Invades the North
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Siege of Vicksburg
The Confederacy Falls
Sherman Takes Atlanta
Grant’s Virginia Campaign
Richmond Falls
Surrender at Appomattox
What Happened so far
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Emancipation Proclamation was introduced
Social, economic, and political change affected
both the Union and the Confederacy
Greenbacks
Lee Invades the North
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Robert E. Lee was confident
that the Confederacy was
going to win the war
Confederate victories at
Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville
Lee made fatal decision to
invade the North
Lee’s troops are stopped by the
Union in the town of Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Battle Of Gettysburg lasted
three days
• Pickett’s Charge was enforced by
General George Pickett
• This brought victory to the Union
• 23,000 casualties from the North
• 28,000 men lay dead or wounded
from the South
Fighting During The
Battle Of Gettysburg
The Siege of Vicksburg
• Confederate troops at Vicksburg in Mississippi surrendered to Ulysses Grant
• Direct attacks failed, instead had a long siege
• Troops surrounded city and prevented the delivery of supplies and food
•Union now had total control of the Mississippi River
The Siege of Vicksburg
The Confederacy Falls
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March 1864 Ulysses Grant was given
control of all Union armies
Grant pursued Lee’s army
General William T. Sherman marched deep
into the South
William T. Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
Sherman Takes Atlanta
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Sherman took Atlanta in
September 1864
Abraham Lincoln won
reelection
November 1864 Sherman
burned Atlanta
Sherman’s March to the
Sea
Goal was to join Grant’s
troops in Virginia
Sherman’s troops burn down Atlanta
Grant’s Virginia Campaign
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Grant’s goal was to keep attacking Lee’s army no
matter what the final outcome was.
Took Grant a year to defeat Lee
Battle of Wilderness
Battle Of Wilderness
Richmond Falls
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April 1865 Lee gave up hope
Jefferson Davis and Government fled Richmond
The Fall of Richmond
Surrender at Appomattox
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April 9th 1865 Lee and Grant met at the Virginia
Appomattox Court House
Confederates were allowed to return to their homes
The fighting may have ended but there was much
more awaiting this new nation
Appomattox Court House
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
Works Cited
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Dallek, Robert. "The Civil War." American
History. Evanston IL: McDougal Littell, 2008.