1. Chancellorsville Lee’s Perfect Victory Lee Hooker May, 1863
Troop Strength:
133,868
Troop Strength:
60,892

2. Chancellorsville
May 1, 1863
Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

3. Chancellorsville
May 2, 1863
Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

4. Chancellorsville
May 3, 1863
Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

5. Chancellorsville
May 3, 1863
Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

6. Chancellorsville
May 4-6, 1863
Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

7. KILLED 1,606 1,665 WOUNDED 9,672 9,081 CAPT/MISS 5,919 2,018 TOTAL
Chancellorsville
May 4-6, 1863
CASUALTIES
UNION
CONFEDERATE
KILLED
1,606
1,665
WOUNDED
9,672
9,081
CAPT/MISS
5,919
2,018
TOTAL
17,197
13,303
Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

8. Takeaway Union had double CSA number Lee splits army Jackson dies
Roughly 30,000 Casualties…Lee is heading North…

9. Chancellorsville
May 1-6, 1863
R.I.P.

10. Gettysburg

12. The Plan
Lee (C.S.A.) attempts another invasion of the North after victory at Chancelorsville
Lee hopes to capture another northern city which could convince the North to seek peace
Lee desperately needs supplies; stops at the town of Gettysburg, PA

13. The Union- North
General George Meade newly appointed
90,000 troops

14. The Confederacy- The South
General Robert E. Lee
75,000 troops
General Pickett
General Longstreet

15. Lee’s plan 1. Weaken the flanks (sides)- Day 1 and 2
2. Attack the center of the Union line on Day 3!

16. Pickett’s Charge
On the 3rd day of battle, Lee orders an all-out attack on the center of the Union line.
George Pickett leads 15,000 Confederate soldiers in a charge across the low ground separating the two forces
“High Tide of the Confederacy”
Northern-most point reached by Confederate army
Closest and last chance for Confederacy to win the War

17. The Troops July 3rd Union: Occupies the High Ground “Cemetery Ridge”
Pickett’s Charge
The C.S.A.- wants to occupy the high ground
July 3rd
Union: Occupies the High Ground
“Cemetery Ridge”
July 2

18. Pickett’s Charge- attack the center

19. “General Lee, I have no division now. ” ……
“General Lee, I have no division now.” …….words spoken by General Pickett after the Battle of Gettysburg
As the division marched towards the ridge, half were killed by cannon fire, cannister or bullets from the dug-in Union troops
Of the men that reached the ridge, most were killed or captured
Union victory

20. The Aftermath
Casualties
Union = 23,000
Confederacy = 28,000

21. Lincoln with Civil War Soldiers

22. Lincoln Actual Photograph of Lincoln just before
giving the speech at Gettysburg

25. 1. Arlington National Cemetery is located on Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s confiscated estate.  Days after resigning from the U.S. Army on April 20, 1861, to take command of Virginian forces in the Civil War, Robert E. Lee left the Arlington estate where he had married Mary Lee and lived for 30 years. He would never return. After Virginia seceded from the Union on May 23, 1861, Union troops crossed the Potomac River from the national capital and occupied the 200-acre property and house that been built by George Washington Parke Custis, Mary’s father and the step-grandson of George Washington

26. After Mary Lee, confined to a wheelchair, sent a representative instead of appearing personally to pay a $92.07 tax bill, the government seized the property in With Washington, D.C., teeming with dead soldiers and out of burial space, Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs formally proposed Arlington as the location of a new military cemetery. On May 13, 1864, 21-year-old Private William Christman of Pennsylvania, who had died of peritonitis, became the first military man buried at Arlington. To ensure the house would forever be uninhabitable for the Lees, Meigs directed graves to be placed as close to the mansion as possible, and in 1866 he ordered the remains of 2,111 unknown Civil War soldiers killed on battlefields near Washington, D.C., to be placed inside a vault in the Lees’ rose garden.
-Smithsonian

29. Photos