Early 1863 – More Southern
Victories
Fredericksburg
– Ambrose Burnside
eager for Union victory
– 122,000 men attack
head on into Lee’s
forces
– Must cross
Rappahannock River in
front of forces
– Orders an assault up
the hill all day long
– 13,000 Union forces
die, only 5,000
Confederates
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Fighting Joe Hooker
takes Union command
Tries to move around
Fredericksburg
Lee splits forces to
fool Hooker
Lee splits forces again
to flank army
Stonewall Jackson
sweeps Union forces
and is shot by his own
men after dark
Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville
The Tide of the War Turns
Union
victory at Gettysburg
Union victory at Vicksburg
Grant put in command of Union
troops-- won’t retreat
troops
African Americans joining Union
forces-- 200,000 more fighting men
forces
Gettysburg
Day 1 – Union troops fall back into hills behind
Gettysburg – dig and prepare defense as troops
come in for both sides 75,000 Confederates,
85,000 Union troops
Longstreet tries to get Lee to move between
Union forces and Washington D.C.
Day 2 – Lee orders attack on southern end of
Union line , almost break through on Little Round
Top-- Maine volunteers hold them off with 350
Top
men,1st Minnesota suffers 80% casualties
Day 3 – Lee orders all out frontal attack up hill
over a mile of open battlefieldbattlefield- Pickett's Charge
South loses 28,000 men, 12 mile wagon train of
wounded, North should have attacked….war could
have been over
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
Events that Lead to Southern
Surrender
Lee loses 1000’s of men at Wilderness,
Cold Harbor and Spotsylvania – can’t
replace his menmen- Grant relentless
relentless-- loses
65,000 men in 2 months
Lee builds trenches at Petersburg only to
defend RichmondRichmond- start of trench warfare
Union has sweeping victories in the deep
South as General Sherman uses total
warfare to defeat the South
Petersburg
Sherman’s March to the Sea