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Chapter 11, Section 5 Part 2 Decisive Battles p. 407-411 The Union gains an upper hand with victories at Gettysburg & Vicksburg in 1863 and finally forces.

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1 Chapter 11, Section 5 Part 2 Decisive Battles p. 407-411 The Union gains an upper hand with victories at Gettysburg & Vicksburg in 1863 and finally forces the South’s surrender in April 1865.

2 Gettysburg – Day 3: July 3, 1863 Rebels defeated (Lost 28,000) Confederate General George Pickett lost over 50% of his men during “Pickett’s Charge” – “I have no division sir.” - Pickett to Lee – Armistead’s “High Water Mark” Union Victory! (Lost 23,000) Considered the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. Custer’s cavalry beats Stuart. “It’s all my fault.” - Lee

3 Battle of Vicksburg: July 4, 1863 Six-week long siege of Vicksburg Grant ordered to take Vicksburg at ALL costs! – Over 10,000 Union soldiers killed in action. Grant’s victory secures control of the entire Mississippi River. – Lincoln brings Grant east to fight Lee – Grant named Lt. General The Siege at Vicksburg Ends on July 4, 1863

4 Gettysburg Address Maybe the most famous speech in American history Address was given to dedicate new National Cemetery Only 262 words, 2 minutes Expressed the feelings of the nation. Upstaged Edward Everett Speech carved into the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863 “The battle itself was less important than the speech." - Charles Sumner, 1865

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6 Closing In On The Confederacy Main Idea: With Grant in command, Union forces carry the war to the heart of the Confederacy. Lincoln finally finds his generals: Grant & Sherman Grant attacks Lee at the Battle of Petersburg – Like Vicksburg, he lays siege – Unlike McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, or Meade - Grant keeps attacking – Lee realizes he’s fighting a different kind of enemy. Sherman takes Atlanta – Lincoln is re-elected William Tecumseh Sherman Lincoln’s “Dream Team” Ulysses S. Grant

7 “TOTAL WAR” against the South Sherman’s “March to the Sea” Nov. 15 - Dec. 21, 1864 “War is cruelty. The crueler it is, the sooner it will end.” – W.T. Sherman Sherman marches from Atlanta to Savannah,GA – Destroying all land, property, anything that might give support to the South! – Over $100 million in property damage – about $1.5 billion in today’s $ General William Tecumseh Sherman: nickname “Uncle Billy”

8 Peace At Last Main Idea: Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, putting an end to the long and bloody war. Surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomattox Court House, VA April 9, 1865 Knowing the end was near…. - “With malice toward none, with charity for all…” - Lincoln’s 2 nd Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant April 9, 1865 Grant gives generous terms – Confederate soldiers can go home with their possessions. – Confederate soldiers given food for their journey home. Cost of the war: Bloodiest Conflict in America History – Confederate Losses: 260,000 – Union Losses: 360,000 37,000 African Americans Results of the War: reunited the country & ended slavery, but….

9 Before the war, why did the North fear the extension of slavery to the West?

10 Civil War Trivia: Wilmer McLean Wilmer McLean (May 3, 1814 – June 5, 1882) a retired Major, was a grocer from Virginia. It is said that the Civil War started in Wilmer McLean's front yard and ended in his front parlor. July 1861 – P.T. Beauregard used McLean’s house at Manassas Junction as Confederate HQ. – A cannonball fell through the kitchen fireplace McLean moved his family to Appomattox Courthouse in 1863 Lee surrendered to Grant in McLean’s house The initial enagagements on July 18, 1861, in what would become the First Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, took place on McLean's farm, the Yorkshire Plantation, in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia. Union Army artillery fired at McLean's house, headquarters for Confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard, and a cannonball dropped through the kitchen fireplace. Beauregard wrote after the battle, "A comical effect of this artillery fight was the destruction of the dinner of myself and staff by a Federal shell that fell into the fire-place of my headquarters at the McLean House." [1] McLean was a retired major in the Virginia militia, but was too old to return to active duty at the outbreak of the Civil War; he did make his living during the war as a sugar broker supplying the Confederate States Army. He decided to move because his commercial activities were centered mostly in southern Virginia and the Union army presence in his area of northern Virginia made his work difficult. He undoubtedly was also motivated by a desire to protect his family from a repetition of his battle experience. In the spring of 1863 he and his family moved about 120 miles (200 km) south to Appomattox County, Virginia, near Appomattox Court House.First Battle of Bull RunManassasPrince William County, VirginiaUnion Army ConfederateBrigadier GeneralP.G.T. Beauregard [1]militiaConfederate States ArmyAppomattox County, VirginiaAppomattox Court House On April 9, 1865, the war came back to Wilmer McLean when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of McLean's house near Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the Civil War. Later, McLean is supposed to have said "The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor". [2] Once the surrender was over, members of the Army of the Potomac began taking the tables, chairs, and various other furnishings in the house—essentially, anything that wasn't tied down—as souvenirs. They simply handed the protesting McLean money as they made off with his property. George Custer was given the table on which the surrender document was drafted by Grant. McLeans' second home is now part of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument operated by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior.ConfederateRobert E. LeeUlysses S. GrantMcLean's house [2]George Custer National Park ServiceDepartment of the Interior After the War, McLean and his family sold their house in 1867, unable to keep up the mortgage payments, and returned to their home in Manassas. They later moved to Alexandria, Virginia. He worked for the Internal Revenue Service from 1873 to 1876.ManassasAlexandria, VirginiaInternal Revenue Service McLean residence in 1865, Appomattox Court House, VA

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