Lecture/presentation that explores the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville as well as the fighting over the three-day Battle of Gettysburg and its deadly aftermath.

1. Reflect:
Explain (1) why the Battle of Antietam was important and (2) what the
Emancipation Proclamation was as well as where it applied/did not apply.
The War Moves North
Photograph of the Antietam dead (above)
and a stylized version of the Emancipation
Proclamation (right)

2. 1
Conscription Laws
Recruiting poster from New York
City printed by Baker & Godwin,
June 23, 1863
“Attention!
Conscripts!
Recruits
Wanted!”
poster from
Fayetteville,
NC
North and South – at first the armies were
manned by volunteers, but later the rich
could hire substitutes or they could purchase
an exemption for $300
Print entitled “Southern ‘Volunteers’”
that may have appeared after April 1862

3. 2
Battle of Fredericksburg
Map outlining the campaign at Fredericksburg
Joe HookerAmbrose E. Burnside
After Antietam, Lincoln
replaced McClellan with
General A. E. Burnside –
Burnside said he wasn’t ready
Burnside was right – at Fredericksburg over
10,000 Union soldiers were killed/wounded
(known as “Burnsides Slaughter Pen”)

4. 2:58Union Suicide Mission at
Fredericksburg

5. 4
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Chancellorsville depicting the wounding of Jackson
Hooker’s plan at the Battle of
Chancellorsville
May 2-4, 1863, near Chancellorsville,
VA, Lee divided his numerically
inferior force to defeat the new Union
commander Joseph Hooker
Lee lost Stonewall Jackson, but he
still decided to invade Pennsylvania

6. 5
Gettysburg: Day #1
Gettysburg from an observation tower
The first day of fighting at Gettysburg
Union commander, George Meade,
knew of Lee’s army & made his stand
near a village called Gettysburg
Two sides fought, attracting
reinforcements, and by the end of the
1st day the Confederates seized the
town

7. 4:59Civil War in 4: Battle of Gettysburg

8. 7
Gettysburg: Day #2
Little Round
Top from
Devil’s Den
below; the site
of fierce
fighting on the
second day of
Gettysburg
The second day of fighting at
Gettysburg
Union had setup their forces in the
shape of a fishhook
Lee opened attacks across
Gettysburg: Cemetery Ridge, Little
Round Top, Devils Den, The Peach
Orchard, The Wheatfield
By the end of the 2nd day Union
troops held their ground

9. 8
Gettysburg: Day #3
The High Water Mark; the site of Pickett’s Charge
The third day of fighting at Gettysburg
Lee felt with one more attack he
could break the Union line –
bombarded the Union with artillery
Then, Lee ordered his forces to press
forward across open farmland –
Pickett’s Charge (the “High Water
Mark”) , but it ended in failure

10. 2:37Civil War Battles: The Battle of
Gettysburg

11. 8:27Ken Burns: Gettysburg (Excerpt)

12. 11
Scope/Scale at Gettysburg
Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg,
photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863
Dead soldier, taken 3 days after the battle
The site where a dead Confederate
sharpshooter was “allegedly” found
Three-day battle at Gettysburg
produced staggering loses: 23,000
Union men killed or wounded and
28,000 Confederate men killed or
wounded

13. 4:41Civil War in 4 Minutes: Photography

14. 13
C.S.A. Peace Delegations
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
The war’s events in 1863
As Gettysburg raged a C.S.A. peace
delegation was moving towards D.C.
Lincoln refused to allow the
Confederate peace mission to pass
through Union lines – from here on,
the South was doomed

15. Homework:
Reflect
Do a Google search for Civil War reenactors. In two paragraphs,
explain what they do and discuss if you think it’s appropriate.
Wrapping-Up
How is the battle of Gettysburg remembered today?
What are your thoughts on Civil War reenactors?
Brief video from the Smithsonian Channel about
Gettysburg featuring Civil War reenactors (above)
and the Gettysburg battlefield at the end of the first
day (right)