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Civil War Part 3
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- 2. Vicksburg • Union needsto control the MS River – New Orleans – Shiloh
- 4. The Siege ofVicksburg • Siege of Vicksburg begins in May 1863. • Inhabitants had taken shelter in caves dug in the clay hills on which the city stands.
- 5. The Siege ofVicksburg • “mules were soon brought in requisition, and their meat sold readily at one dollar per pound, the citizens being as anxious to get it as they were before the investment to purchase the delicacies of the season.” • “was also distributed among the soldiers, to those who desired it, although it was not given out under the name of rations. A great many of them, however, accepted it in preference to doing without any meat, and the flesh of the mules was equal to the best venison.”
- 8. The Siege ofVicksburg • After forty-eight days, city surrenders – July 4, 1863 surrenders • July 8 the last Confederate fort on the MS surrendered
- 9. The Significance ofVicksburg • Last Confederate stronghold on the MS river – Taking Vicksburg severs the South’s supply lines. • Union Navy could have safe passage down the river. – Union could freely patrol river to assist Army. • “the fate of the Confederacy was sealed when Vicksburg fell.”
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- 12. Gettysburg • Most famousand most important Battle – Lee looks for another shot at victory in the north • July 1 to July 3, 1863
- 13. The Battle ofGettysburg • Overconfident after his great victory, Lee pushed his troops into battle
- 14. Gettysburg • Begins asa skirmish but by its end involved 160,000 Americans. – Major cities in the North were under threat of attack from Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia • Confederate soldiers searching for shoes and other supplies headed toward Gettysburg
- 15. Pickett’s Charge • "General,shall I advance?" • "Charge the enemy and remember old Virginia!" yelled Pickett – 12,000 Rebels formed an orderly line that stretched a mile – March takes 50 minutes – Half the men die perished
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- 20. Gettysburg Address • Dedicationof a national cemetery on a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield. • One of the most famous speeches given by a U.S. President.
- 21. Gettysburg Address • November19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA • Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from the earth.
- 23. Gettysburg Address • Paidtribute to the Union soldiers who sacrificed their lives for union and equality. – Lines of the Gettysburg Address are carved on the walls inside the Lincoln Memorial – The speaker before Lincoln, spoke for two hours. • Lincoln's believed that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here," his speech