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The Battle of Gettysburg
The Turning Point of the War
The Plan
– Lee (C.S.A.) attempts another invasion of
the North
– Lee hopes to capture another northern city
which could convince the North to seek
peace
– Lee desperately needs supplies; stops into
the town of Gettysburg, PA
The Union- North
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General George
Meade- newly
appointed
90,000 troops
The Confederacy- The South
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General Lee
75,000 troops
General Pickett
General Longstreet
Gettysburg Map
The Troops
Pickett’s Charge
The
C.S.A.wants to
occupy
the high
ground
July 3rd
Union: Occupies the
High Ground
“Cemetery Ridge”
July 2
Lee’s plan
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Weaken the flanks (sides)Day 1 and 2
 2. Attack the center of the
Union line on Day 3!
Pickett’s Charge- attack the center
Pickett’s Charge
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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
“General Lee, I have no division now”. .
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General Pickett after the Battle of Gettysburg
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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
The Aftermath
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Casualties
– Union = 23,000
– Confederacy = 28,000
Battle of Gettysburg Music Video
Gettysburg Address
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"Fourscore 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.
4 x 20 + 7 years ago our founding fathers
brought to North America a new nation- The
United States of America- born out of freedom
and dedicated to the idea that ALL men (all
races) are created equal.
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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.
Now we are involved in a huge war- testing if
the U.S. (born out of freedom) can exist. Here
we are at Gettysburg- a battlefield of that war.
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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.
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We are here to dedicate a part of that field as a burial
place- for those people who died here so that our nation
could exist and endure. It is the right thing to do.
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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot
consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave
men, living and dead who struggled here have
consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
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But in a larger sense, we can’t dedicate or make sacred this
ground. The brave men who fought here- both killed and
wounded, have already made it sacred far better than our
power to do so.
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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.
The rest of the world will not remember what we said here on
this day, but the world will never forget what those people who
died here did. It is for us the living to devote ourselves to the
unfinished work (securing freedom for all people, carrying out
the hopes and dreams of the founding fathers, prove that a
democracy can work) which those that we are remembering
today have already advanced.
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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."
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Those that died at Gettysburg did not die
in vain- but died to advance the cause
which is that this nation guided by God,
shall have a second birth of freedom- one
in which ALL men will be free-- and that
democracy shall not perish from this Earth