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Union Victory
Chapter 11, Section 4
Confederate High Tide
Despite being turned away at
Antietam, Robert E. Lee quickly
regained momentum by
crushing the Union army at
Fredericksburg, VA
• Lee followed up with perhaps
his most brilliant victory at
Chancellorsville, VA, but the
victory would come at great
cost as he would lose his most
trusted subordinate, General
“Stonewall” Jackson
•
Right: Gen. Thomas J.
“Stonewall” Jackson
would be fired upon by
his own troops following
his victory at
Chancellorsville
Below: The 110th
Pennsylvania Regiment
would be nearly wiped
out at Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
General George G.
Meade who would
command Union
forces at
Gettysburg only
days after
receiving full
command of the
Union army
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Riding the high tide of
Fredericksburg &
Chancellorsville, Lee decided to
once again invade the North
• Almost by accident, the Battle
of Gettysburg ensues over the
course of three days
• After intense fighting, Lee is
once again turned back and
forced to retreat into the
South; it would be his final
attempt at taking the war to
the North
•
Vicksburg
At the same time as Lee
was being turned back at
Gettysburg, Grant was
taking the important Miss.
River fort at Vicksburg, MS
by siege of the city
• Not long after Vicksburg,
General Grant would be
moved east and given
command of all Union
forces by President Lincoln
•
A deceased Union artillery soldier on the battlefield
outside of Vicksburg. By the time the month-long
siege had ended, residents & soldiers alike had
resorted to eating horses, mules, and rats
The Gettysburg Address
•
The only known photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg
the day he gave his famous Gettysburg Address
At a ceremony to dedicate
the Gettysburg battlefield
as a national cemetery in
November of 1863,
President Abraham Lincoln
gave a speech that would
come to be known as the
Gettysburg Address which
was only two minutes long,
but summed up the
purpose of the war.
Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Following Grant moving
Right: General William
Tecumseh Sherman who would
lead his soldiers through
Georgia & South Carolina
east, he appointed his top
assistant, General William T.
Sherman, to lead his army of Below: Sherman’s soldiers
rip up rail lines & bend
roughly 60,000 men through would
them around trees calling them
the countryside of Georgia in “Sherman neckties”
an attempt to “make the
South howl” by taking
Atlanta and Savannah
The Election of 1864
The Presidential election of
1864 weighed heavily on the
mind of Abraham Lincoln,
however, once news of Union
victories continued to roll in,
Lincoln would also roll to
victory
• With political influence at his
disposal, Lincoln pushed
through the 13th Amendment
formally ending slavery
•
Election poster from the Presidential election of 1864
which pitted Abraham Lincoln against George
McClellan. In the end, Lincoln would go on to a
relatively easy victory
Lee’s Final Surrender
With Sherman and his
army moving
northward, and Grant’s
army closing in, Lee
knew that it was time
to end the conflict
• It would be at
Appomattox
Courthouse, Virginia
that Lee would officially
surrender his army to
Ulysses S. Grant
•
Right: One artist’s
rendition of the final
surrender at
Appomattox by Lee.
Despite his earlier harsh
terms, Grant was very
gracious towards
Robert E. Lee and his
army
Left: The home of Wilmer
McLean would be used as
the venue for the final
surrender of Robert E. Lee.
The McLean family had
moved to Appomattox after
the First Battle of Bull Run
had taken place on their
farm near Manassas.