Transcript Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address
By Erica Hsieh, David, Rice Ethan
{ Bumpers,
and Zoe Goldberger
Battle of Gettysburg
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The Battle of Gettysburg Repulse of Longstreet's Assault, by James Walker, oil on canvas
July 1, 1863
•Three days long
•Army of North Virginia under the Confederate General Robert
E. Lee
•Army of Potomac under the command of Union Maj. Gen.
George G. Meade and General Reynolds, who died in battle
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Reynolds and
Meade were about
10th in a long line
of Union generals,
and all had been
fired.
Casualties
South
North
3,155 killed
14,531 wounded
5,369 captured or missing
23,055 total casualties
4,708 killed
12,693 wounded
5,830 captured or missing
23,231 total amount casualties
The Battlefields
Cemetery Hill
•July 3rd, 1863
•Infantry assault called Pickett's Charge.
•Lee ordered Pickett’s Charge on General Meade and Union forces at
Cemetery Hill, forced Confederates to charge uphill into open
gunfire, a suicide mission, killing 40% of the Confederates
Timothy H. O’Sullivan, 1863
•Dead Confederates without shoes, because the survivors needed them
•Their pockets are turned inside out: survivors did not stop at shoes
“A battle has been often the subject of elaborate description; but
it can be described in one simple word, devilish! and the
distorted dead recall the ancient legends of men torn in pieces
by the savage wantonness of fiends”
-Alexander Gardner, caption for photo in Gardner’s
Photographic Sketchbook of the War, published 1865-1866
• May 11-June 4
• Union victory
• By the time of
the Address,
Vicksburg, too,
had be won:
more support
for Lincoln
• Union had been losing battles, and their only
“victory”, at Antietam, was a stalemate.
Gettysburg was their first big victory.
• Most presidential speeches are boring, and long.
The Gettysburg Address is short, eloquent, poetic,
and graceful.
• The speech told the public why America was
special, and worth fighting for.
• New birth of Freedom
• War is about slavery
• Union must be saved (Nationalism)
• Valor of all who fought
• War must be won
•
“All men are created equal” became rallying cry
for the last three years of the war
• Last line is the definition of Democracy we use
today
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Turned tide of popular sentiment against the
south even further
• Made even more Union troops angry because
they thought they were fighting for the Union not
slavery
• The Gettysburg Address made the war ABOUT
slavery.
•
“New Birth of Freedom” turned the Civil War
into a labor that would end with another chance
to follow through with the idea that “all men are
created equal.”
• The Gettysburg address states that the union is fighting
for a sense of equality between men.
• Throughout history equality has been extended to
include more groups of people.
• This famous phrase marks Lincoln’s theme of
democracy due to its themes of letting the people rule
the government that rules them.
• Theme running through American history even years
prior to the Gettysburg Address. For example, in the
Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster’s debate with
South Carolina Senator Haynes, in 1830
“…that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from this earth”
Daniel Webster, Massachusetts Senator, who, by popular
opinion, might have become President, said, in 1830, that
government and the source of its power is:
"the people's constitution, the people's
government; made for the people, made by the
people, and answerable to the people”
1) What military tactic did Lee employ that killed
40% of his men?
a) Fence Charge
c) Lattice Warfare
b) Pickett’s Charge
d) Lickety Fudge
2) Which of the following statements is wrong?
a) The Gettysburg Address defined Democracy as
nobody had before
b)Lincoln used “Four score and seven years” instead
of “87” because is sounded better
c) Lee led the Confederates and Meade the Union at the
battle of Gettysburg
d) The battle ended just before the Fourth of July
Morrison
Winfield Scott
2) SHOUT IT OUT: which generals were at the Battle
of Gettysburg?
Robert