1. Bell Ringer
What were some issues that occurred on the home front in the north and the south?

2. Home front in the North Northern Economy Draft Riot Civil Liberties
Income tax 3%, tariffs, government bonds
Legal Tender Act
Homestead Act
Draft Riot
Conscription – needing troops
July 1863
Civil Liberties
“Habeas Corpus” suspended – protects from being held in jail without charge of crime

3. Home front in the South Effects of Blockade Davis Struggles to Pay
Union blockade 80% effective
Southerners depend on own farms/factories
Davis Struggles to Pay
War reduced value of crops
Taxes placed were resisted
Paper $$$ = high inflation
Southern Leaders Argue
Conscription laws, seizure of property, habeas corpus

4. Life as a soldier

5. Women in the War

6. Siege of Vicksburg: July 4, 1863
Last Rebel stronghold on the Mississippi River
Grant besieged the city for 10 months
City surrendered on July 4th
IMPORTANCE
Union controlled the Miss. R.
South split in 2
Gettysburg & Vicksburg = turning point in favor of Union

7. Civil War Overview Part II

8. Battle of Gettysburg: July 1-3 1863
90,000 Union troops under Gen. George Meade
vs.
75,000 Rebels under Gen. Lee

9. Gettysburg: Day 1 Lee wanted to
Collect supplies
Move fighting from Virginia
Threaten the North
Maj. Meade moves between Lee and Washington DC
Lee moves men to Gettysburg
30,000 Confederates defeat 20,000 Union who fell back south to Cemetery & Culp’s Hill

10. Gettysburg: Day 2
Union defends south of Gettysburg with 90,000 soldiers
Confederates wrap around Union with 70,000 soldiers
Lee launches heavy assault on Union throughout day
Union defenders held strong positions by the end of the day

11. Gettysburg: Turning Point, Day 3
Fighting continues on Culp’s Hill
12,000 Confederates fight in the center of Union fire – Pickett’s Charge
Lee retreats back to Virginia
51,000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing

13. Aftermath and Impact
Lee waited for Union counterattack on July 4 but Meade never pursued
4 months later Lincoln will issue the Gettysburg Address…

14. Bell Ringer
What was unique about the Gettysburg Address and why was it such an important speech for Lincoln to give?

15. Gettysburg Address
Lincoln came to Gettysburg to honor the fallen soldiers with the dedication of the new memorial and cemetery
It is recognized today as an enduring statement of Americas values and goals

16. 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 battlefield 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.

18. Grant’s Plan
Grant given command of the Union Army in March 1864 when Lincoln fired Meade after Gettysburg
Grant’s Plan:
1. Pursue Lee in Virginia
2. Sherman would push through the South to Atlanta

19. Grant in Virginia
His goal was to inflict more losses on the Confederates than they could withstand.
Battle of the Wilderness, May ’64
Grant lost 17,000
Spotsylvania & Cold Harbor
Grant lost 7,000
June ’64, Grant arrived in Petersburg, outside of Richmond

20. Sherman’s Total War Destroy way of life in the South
Total War = war against the military and the people
Destroy way of life in the South
Sherman’s success helped Lincoln’s
re-election.
Atlanta to Savannah miles of destruction

21. Fall of Richmond
Battle of Petersburg
* Lee vs. Grant = 10 month stand off in the 1st trench warfare battle
Lee could not hold
Pulled out and left Richmond open to Grant.
April 1865, Union Army arrived in the Confederate capital

22. Lee Surrenders
April 9, 1865, Lee met Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in VA.
Grant’s terms:
Turnover arms
Keep belongings
Return to their farms
Feed the Rebels