Civil War Part 3

1. Chapter 11 Part 3

2. Vicksburg
• Union needs to control the MS River
– New Orleans
– Shiloh

4. The Siege of Vicksburg
• 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 of Vicksburg
• “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 of Vicksburg
• After forty-eight days, city surrenders
– July 4, 1863 surrenders
• July 8 the last Confederate fort on the MS
surrendered

9. The Significance of Vicksburg
• 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.”

11. Road to Gettysburg

12. Gettysburg
• Most famous and most important Battle
– Lee looks for another shot at victory in the
north
• July 1 to July 3, 1863

13. The Battle of Gettysburg
• Overconfident after his great victory, Lee
pushed his troops into battle

14. Gettysburg
• Begins as a 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

16. Pickett’s Charge

18. Gettysburg Casualties

19. Gettysburg Address

20. Gettysburg Address
• Dedication of 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
• November 19, 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
• Paid tribute 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