The Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 resulted in a Union victory, with the North having 23,000 casualties and the Confederacy 28,000. The next day, General Grant led the Union to victory at Vicksburg, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River. Later, General Sherman marched his army through Georgia in an attempt to break the South's will, destroying a wide swath of land along the way. Finally, in April 1865 General Grant defeated General Lee in Virginia, accepting his surrender at Appomattox Court House and effectively ending the Civil War.

1. NORTH WINS

2. Lee’s Southern troops met the Union at GETTYSBURG in Pennsylvania – July 1863 90,000 Union troops against 75,000 confederate troops

3. GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD

4. GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD

5. GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD

6. Southern General George Pickett tried to march his men across a wheat field and are mowed down by Union soldiers – PICKETT’S CHARGE

7. PICKETT’S CHARGE - GETTYSBURG

8. North wins the Battle of Gettysburg Union has 23,000 soldiers dead and wounded and Confederacy has 28,000

9. The day after Gettysburg, General Grant led the Union to a victory at VICKSBURG along the Mississippi Union surrounds the city and starves out the people until they are forced to give up

10. The victory at Vicksburg gives the Union total control over the Mississippi River Union now has the momentum

11. BATTLE OF VICKSBURG

12. VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI

13. SEIGE OF VICKSBURG BLUE = UNION RED = CONFEDERATES

14. Lincoln places General Grant in charge of the entire Union army

15. Union General WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN drives an army through the South to further divide the Confederacy

16. Union wants to break the South’s will with this MARCH TO THE SEA through Georgia Union destroys everything for a 300 mile long stretch that is 60 miles wide

17. THE UNION’S “MARCH TO THE SEA”

18. THE UNION’S “MARCH TO THE SEA”

19. THE UNION’S “MARCH TO THE SEA”

20. THE UNION’S “MARCH TO THE SEA”

21. THE UNION’S “MARCH TO THE SEA”

22. THE UNION’S “MARCH TO THE SEA”

23. Lincoln is re-elected President in 1864 for his second term

24. Grant meets Lee in Virginia and defeats the South Lee surrenders at APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE, VIRGINIA on April 9, 1865

25. SIGNING THE SURRENDER PAPERS

26. The Union soldiers were gracious in victory Confederate soldiers were given food and allowed to go home The war that had lasted four long years was finally over

27. THE END