Chapter 4, Section 4
1863 The Union army loses in the Battle of Chancellorsville Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men here! Died shortly after.
Summer of 1863 Vicksburg: Capturing this city (located on the Mississippi River) cut the Confederacy in half! Gettysburg: Three day battle in which 50,000 people were killed in Pennsylvania This would be the last time the South ever tried to fight in Northern territory
1864 Lincoln gives Ulysses S. Grant control of the entire Union army
May, 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman began his “March to the Sea.”
November, 1864 Lincoln wins reelection
December, 1864 Sherman’s troops capture Savannah, GA