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Ceremony to dedicate cemetery at Gettysburg Lincoln spoke for ~2 minutes Huge impact on how people viewed the U.S. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons_pl ans/the-gettysburg-address-how-history-is- made/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons_pl ans/the-gettysburg-address-how-history-is- made/
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Defeat at Low Confederate Morale Planters: Soldiers: Government:
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Ulysses S. Grant William T. Sherman Both men believed in total war
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Virginia Grant’s goal: Constant and high Grant called a Georgia Sherman’s goal: Sherman to the ground; the people and prevent them from
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Lincoln faces Everyone wants McClellan = Fremont = Lincoln and running mate Recent and cast by Union soldiers secured
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Union troops Part President Davis and his government Lee and Grant met at Lee April 9, 1865 Lincoln gives Within, Confederate
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