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Chancellorsville
The General of the Union was Joseph Hooker.
The General of the Confederacy was General Robert E. Lee.
The battle lasted four days.
General Lee outmaneuvered the union.
Lee forced them to retreat.
Confederate victory. -
General Stonewall Jackson
General Stonewall Jackson is shot accidentally in the left arm.
The Confederate gurads thought he was a Yankee.
His arm had to be amputated.
He died May 10 of pneumonia.
General Lee said in reference to Jackson, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right." -
Gettysburg
The General for the Union was General Meade.
The General for the Confederacy was General Robert E. Lee.
It was considered the turning point of the war because the Confederacy's loss of men would never allow them to be on the offensive again.
Union victory.
The reason for the Confederates going there was to get shoes for their men. -
Pickett's Charge
Pickett led a charge on this day.
It did not work very well.
Pickett was from the Confederacy.
He was involved in the Battle of Gettysburg.
He was trying to attack General Meade's forces. -
Vicksburg
The General of the Union was Grant.
The General of the Confederacy was Pemberton.
In spring 1863, Grant sent a distraction in the form of a calvary brigade to destory rail lines to draw away attention from the port city.
Grant landed his forces South of Vicksburg on April 30.
Grant had two frontal assualts on Vicksburg that failed.
In May 1863 he set up a seige.
Food supplies ran low.
July 3, Pemberton asked for terms of surrender and Vicksburg fell the next day.
Confederate victory. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's short two minute speech that "remade America".
Before the war people said,"the Unitd States are." and after they said,"the United States is.".
It was given at the dedication of the Soldiers' national Cemetary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
Grant as commander
On this day, Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant as commander of all Union forces.
Then Grant appoints William Tecumseh Sherman as commander of the military division of the Mississippi.
Both of these appointments changed the war.
They both believed in total war.
They both thought they should fight civilians too. -
Atlanta
Admiral David Farragut wanted to take the major Southern port.
He took three weeks to take it.
On September 2, Sherman telegraphed that they had taken Atlanta.
This was a major blow to the South. -
Sherman's March
Sherman's army oppucied the transportation center of Altanta on this date.
Because of this, the Confederates tried to encircle him and cut off food supplies.
Instead, Sherman abandonded the supplies and led a destructive march southeast known as Sherman's march.
He wanted to make everyone hate war. -
1864 Presidential Election
The Democrats nominated McClellan.
The Radical Republicans formed a third party and nominated Fremont.
THe National Union Party, from the Republicans, nominated Lincoln.
Andrew Johnson was Lincoln's running mate.
Fremont withdrew from the election.
Lincoln won. -
Burning of Richmond
President Davis burned down the city because he didn't want the Union to have the sastifaction of burning it down.
He did this because he recived news that Lee's forces were overtaken by Grant's at Petersburg.
900 buildings were destroyed and hundreds more were damaged. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Lee and Grant met to arrange a Confederate surrender.
Lincoln wanted the terms to be generous.
They were that Lee's soldiers were paroled and they could go home with personal possesions, horses, and three day's rations.
Also, Officers were allowed to keep their own weapons.
In two months, all Confederate resistance ended.
