Civil War

Gettysburg

• Chancellorsville, North lost, Stonewall Jackson friendly fire, died later of pneumonia

• Lee invaded Pennsylvania• Live off land, threaten Baltimore and DC,

move northern opinion toward peace• July 1-3, 1863

GettysburgDay 1

Cemetery Hill

GettysburgDay 2

Gettysburg Day 2

Little Round Top

Chamberlain’s Charge

Joshua Chamberlain

Chamberlain’s Charge

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz8T5iW5FPw

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqT8PMBtIKI

Day 3

Pickett’s Charge

Final Battle

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZj48Ys25U start 2:30

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YG5lb591RY

Casualties

• Union army, 83,289 • 23,049 casualties, 3155 killed, 14529

wounded, 5365 missing• Confederate army, 75,054• probably, 28,063 casualties, 3903 killed,

18,735 wounded, 5425 prisoners

Total War

• Sherman’s March to the Sea• http://www.history.com/topics/william-t-sher

man/videos#shermans-terrifying-tactics• Destroyed everything of use• Ruined railroads• Burned much of Atlanta

Sherman Quotes

• This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

• War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

• War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

• I intend to make Georgia howl.• I would make this war as severe as possible,

and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

1864 Election

• No president had won second term in 30 years• Public opinion was waning for the war• Conservative northerners were alarmed by

Emancipation Proclamation• Sherman took Atlanta in September 1864• “don’t change horses mid-stream”• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pr

esidential_election,_1864

Democrats Split

• Peace and War Democrats

• McClellan was War Democrat

• Party had peace platform, he rejected

John C. Fremont

• Radical abolitionist• Ran against Lincoln• Withdrew when saw

Democrats peace platform