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Pickett’s Charge
By: Brycen Boettcher
Before the Battle
• Following his win at Chancellorsville,VA in
May, Robert Lee decided to attack the
North.• His plan was to create
panic and force the Union to surrender, ending the two year war that had already
taken many lives.
• Lincoln put General George Meade in charge of stopping Lee before he
caused panic in the North.
• On July 1, 1863, Confederate troops
arrived in the town of Gettysburg, looking for a large stash of shoes that
was rumored to be there.
Lee and Meade
Importance of Gettysburg• Gettysburg was a small quiet
Pennsylvania town that thought the Civil War would never get
near them.• The immediate importance of
Gettysburg to the Confederates was the rumored stash of shoes,
but they soon realized that Gettysburg was worth a whole
lot more.• Gettysburg had ten major roads
running into it, allowing whoever controlled it to take
control of southern Pennsylvania and one of the roads leading to
Philadelphia.
First Day of Battle
• On July 1, forward units of both armies reached Gettysburg and began to skirmish.
• As more and more Confederate troops arrived, the Union forces slowly retreated to the high ground outside
Gettysburg.• Robert E. Lee decided not to risk another attack, allowing
both armies to arrive and dig in.• The Union army took position on a three mile stretch of
high ground shaped like a fishhook.• The Confederate army spread out on the fields below,
stretching nearly six miles long.
Map of First Day of Battle
Second Day of Battle• Lee decided to attack the
sides of the Union army at Culp’s Hill and Little Round
Top.• Richard Ewell’s corps attacked
the heavily wooded and steep Culp’s Hill in the morning, but gained very little with massive
casualties.• After a massive delay which
took away half the day, General Longstreet’s corps
attacked the Union troops on Little Round Top.
• The Union managed to fight off the attack, forcing
Longstreet to retreat and regroup.
• After regrouping, Longstreet noticed Union troops moving into the open ground called
the Peach Orchard.• These troops were under the
command of General Sickles, who was ignoring a direct
order from General Meade to stay in his position.
Disaster is Averted• Sickles moved his troops
forward into the Peach Orchard, completely
separating him from the rest of the army.
• Longstreet took the opportunity and attacked,
forcing Sickles to retreat back to the high ground, with the
help of reinforcements.• Both sides took major
casualties that day, with both sides losing about 8,000
troops.
Positions after Second Day of Battle
Lee’s Plan for Third Day of Battle
• Jeb Stuart, Lee’s cavalry commander, was to take his cavalry around to the Union rear.
• Ewell’s troops were to attack Culp’s Hill in a diversionary attack, tying up troops.
• Then a massive artillery barrage of over 170 cannon was set to destroy the Union troops in the middle of
the Union Line, along Cemetery Ridge.• Finally, 12,000 men under General Pickett were to
attack Cemetery Ridge and meet Jeb Stuart’s cavalry in the rear, effectively splitting up the Union army.
Map of Lee’s Planned Attack
Plan Goes Wrong• As Stuart approaches the
rear, he is met with strong resistance from Union cavalry, rendering him ineffective in the plan.
• Ewell’s attack fails on Culp’s Hill, freeing Union troops for
the coming attack, if a breakthrough happened.
• This left the massive artillery barrage as the only
remaining attempt to weaken the Union Line
before the attack.
• For over two hours, 170 guns fired thousands of shells towards the Union line.
• However, due to the smoke over the battlefield, most of the shells landed behind the
line.• Instead of killing soldiers that
could fight, the shells killed doctors and Union wounded
that served no purpose in the coming attack.
Pickett’s Charge
• 12,000 men emerged from the woods and formed a one
mile line.• They began their steady
march forward across the one mile field while the
Union guns tore holes in the long line.
• After crossing the Emmetsburg Road, the line
condensed down to ½ a mile, erasing the gaps in the line.
• As the line got closer, artillery from Little Round Top was able to turn and
shoot on the soldiers at an angle, taking out men in
groups.• Infantry from a forward outpost fired on the passing troops from the other side.• This forced the lines to condense even more, making
them easy targets for the waiting Union cannon.
Pickett’s Charge
• Only 200 hundred men crossed the stone wall where the Union troops were located, the rest
retreated.• Those 200 men however, managed to create a
small breakthrough in the Union Line.• Union reinforcements arrived and the remaining
men were either captured or killed after being surrounded.
• This was the last action in the Battle of Gettysburg, as both sides waited for nightfall.
Retreat of Lee’s Army
• On a wet and dreary July 4, 1863, Lee’s army began the long retreat back to Virginia from
Gettysburg.• Meade followed behind, forcing Lee’s tired
men to continuously march south with no time for rest.
• Once Lee crossed the Potomac back into Virginia, both armies took a much needed
break from war.
Effects of Pickett’s Charge
• After the failed charge, the Confederates were never able to regain momentum in the war, constantly being pushed back towards
Richmond.• 28,000 irreplaceable Confederate men were
killed, leaving Lee with only about 40,000 men.
• TURNING POINT IN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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