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Battle Date State Leaders

N/S

V & I

Vicksburg

(siege)

May 18

– July 4,

1863

Miss Grant

Pemberton

Union victory,

gave them

control of the

Mississippi R.

(fulfilled part of

the Anaconda

Plan)

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•After Antietam, General McClellan failed to finish off a retreating General Lee

• Pres. Lincoln was frustrated by this and had him replaced

• Lincoln eventually replaced his replacement with General Joseph Hooker

• Hooker’s army fought at Chancellorsville where General “Stonewall” Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own men

Lincoln & McClellan shortly after the Battle of Antietam

Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson

General Joseph Hooker

• Despite the tragic loss of “Stonewall” Jackson, Lee pressed into Penn.

• Lee had many ideas of what victories in the North would bring

• Talks of peace

• Fuel Northern discontent with the war

• Would lead to diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy from Europe

• Assistance to the Confederacy from Europe

Center: Jackson, Beauregard, and Lee

Union

Confederacy

• Fighting lasted 3 days on the hills and fields around Gettysburg, PA

• July 1-3, 1863

• 90,000 Union troops were commanded by Gen. George Meade

• 75,000 Confederate troops were commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee

• Union troops tried to hold their ground on Cemetery Ridge, south of the town

General Meade’s HQ @ Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg

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Day 2 @

Gettysburg

Day 3 @

Gettysburg• Turning point of the battle comes on this day

• Lee ordered General George Pickett to directly attack the Union line

• Pickett’s Charge

• Approx. 13,000 rebel

troops charge the ridge

• Thousands died and the

Confederates retreat

• Union expected a counterattack that never came

• Lincoln was again angered that his generals did not finish off Lee’s army

• Union lost 23,000 men

• Confederate casualties equal 28,000 and he leads his men back to Virginia

• Confederates never again cross the Union border

• Remain on the defensive for remainder of the war

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Battle Date State Leaders

N/S

V & I

Gettysburg July

1–3, 1863

Penn. Meade

Lee

Union victory,

over 43,000

casualties, the

South would

never invade

North again

(turning point)

Pickett’s Charge on the 3rd day of Gettysburg