The Civil War Turning Point Gettysburg The Civil War Turning Point

Lincoln & McClellan shortly after the Battle of Antietam Road to Gettysburg After Antietam, General McClellan failed to finish off a retreating General Lee Pres. Lincoln was frustrated by this and had him replaced Lincoln eventually replaced his replacement with General Joseph Hooker Hooker’s army fought at Chancellorsville where General “Stonewall” Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own men Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson General Joseph Hooker

Center: Jackson, Beauregard, and Lee Lee’s Northern Push Despite the tragic loss of “Stonewall” Jackson, Lee pressed into Penn. Lee had many ideas of what victories in the North would bring Talks of peace Fuel Northern discontent with the war Would lead to diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy from Europe Assistance to the Confederacy from Europe Center: Jackson, Beauregard, and Lee

Gettysburg Campaign Union Confederacy

General Meade’s HQ @ Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Fighting lasted 3 days on the hills and fields around Gettysburg, PA July 1-3, 1863 90,000 Union troops were commanded by Gen. George Meade 75,000 Confederate troops were commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee Union troops tried to hold their ground on Cemetery Ridge, south of the town General Meade’s HQ @ Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg

Day One @ Gettysburg

Day 2 @ Gettysburg

Day 3 @ Gettysburg Turning point of the battle comes on this day Lee ordered General George Pickett to directly attack the Union line Pickett’s Charge Approx. 13,000 rebel troops charge the ridge Thousands died and the Confederates retreat

Confederate Retreat Union expected a counterattack that never came Lincoln was again angered that his generals did not finish off Lee’s army Union lost 23,000 men Confederate casualties equal 28,000 and he leads his men back to Virginia Confederates never again cross the Union border Remain on the defensive for remainder of the war

Historical Context . The southern forces were defeated Battle was July 1-July 3, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Approximately: 163,000 soldiers fought the battle over 7,500 were killed 27,000 were wounded 11,100 were captured or missing The southern forces were defeated Total casualties of the War to this time 472,154 This battle alone had 51,000 casualties 10

The Gettysburg Address 11

Abraham Lincoln Leader of the Republican Party in 1860 Becomes the 16th President of the United States receiving 40% of the popular vote Southerners called him the “Black Republican” for fears that he would abolish slavery and end the ‘Southern way of life” the southern states seceded in response to his election Lincoln stated at the beginning of the conflict that his intention was to preserve the union, not end slavery The Emancipation Proclamation and this address begins the movement towards the end of slavery in America 12

Gettysburg Address November 1863 4 months after the battle 15,000 people gathered to dedicate the Soldiers’ National Cemetery Keynote Speaker – Edwin Everett, the best orator of the period, spoke for 2 hours Lincoln’s address 271 words and lasted 2 minutes

Gettysburg Address “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. 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. 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. 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.”

The Gettysburg Address (1863) Abraham Lincoln Main Points: It is time we talk about the promise of equality. “…a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” We honor the soldiers sacrifice. “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us” The Union is worth fighting for. “—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 parish from the earth.” 15

Monument on the Spot of Lincoln’s Address Soldiers’ National Cemetery Gettysburg, Pennsylvania