Chancellorsville Lee’s Perfect Victory Lee Hooker May, 1863 Troop Strength: 133,868 Troop Strength: 60,892

Chancellorsville May 1, 1863 Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

Chancellorsville May 2, 1863 Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

Chancellorsville May 3, 1863 Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

Chancellorsville May 3, 1863 Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

Chancellorsville May 4-6, 1863 Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

KILLED 1,606 1,665 WOUNDED 9,672 9,081 CAPT/MISS 5,919 2,018 TOTAL Chancellorsville May 4-6, 1863 CASUALTIES UNION CONFEDERATE KILLED 1,606 1,665 WOUNDED 9,672 9,081 CAPT/MISS 5,919 2,018 TOTAL 17,197 13,303 Map by Hal Jespersen (CWMaps.com)

Takeaway Union had double CSA number Lee splits army Jackson dies Roughly 30,000 Casualties…Lee is heading North…

Chancellorsville May 1-6, 1863 R.I.P.

Gettysburg

The Plan Lee (C.S.A.) attempts another invasion of the North after victory at Chancelorsville Lee hopes to capture another northern city which could convince the North to seek peace Lee desperately needs supplies; stops at the town of Gettysburg, PA

The Union- North General George Meade newly appointed 90,000 troops

The Confederacy- The South General Robert E. Lee 75,000 troops General Pickett General Longstreet

Lee’s plan 1. Weaken the flanks (sides)- Day 1 and 2 2. Attack the center of the Union line on Day 3!

Pickett’s Charge On the 3rd day of battle, Lee orders an all-out attack on the center of the Union line. George Pickett leads 15,000 Confederate soldiers in a charge across the low ground separating the two forces “High Tide of the Confederacy” Northern-most point reached by Confederate army Closest and last chance for Confederacy to win the War

The Troops July 3rd Union: Occupies the High Ground “Cemetery Ridge” Pickett’s Charge The C.S.A.- wants to occupy the high ground July 3rd Union: Occupies the High Ground “Cemetery Ridge” July 2

Pickett’s Charge- attack the center

“General Lee, I have no division now. ” …… “General Lee, I have no division now.” …….words spoken by General Pickett after the Battle of Gettysburg As the division marched towards the ridge, half were killed by cannon fire, cannister or bullets from the dug-in Union troops Of the men that reached the ridge, most were killed or captured Union victory

The Aftermath Casualties Union = 23,000 Confederacy = 28,000

Lincoln with Civil War Soldiers

Lincoln Actual Photograph of Lincoln just before giving the speech at Gettysburg

1. Arlington National Cemetery is located on Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s confiscated estate.  Days after resigning from the U.S. Army on April 20, 1861, to take command of Virginian forces in the Civil War, Robert E. Lee left the Arlington estate where he had married Mary Lee and lived for 30 years. He would never return. After Virginia seceded from the Union on May 23, 1861, Union troops crossed the Potomac River from the national capital and occupied the 200-acre property and house that been built by George Washington Parke Custis, Mary’s father and the step-grandson of George Washington

After Mary Lee, confined to a wheelchair, sent a representative instead of appearing personally to pay a $92.07 tax bill, the government seized the property in 1864. With Washington, D.C., teeming with dead soldiers and out of burial space, Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs formally proposed Arlington as the location of a new military cemetery. On May 13, 1864, 21-year-old Private William Christman of Pennsylvania, who had died of peritonitis, became the first military man buried at Arlington. To ensure the house would forever be uninhabitable for the Lees, Meigs directed graves to be placed as close to the mansion as possible, and in 1866 he ordered the remains of 2,111 unknown Civil War soldiers killed on battlefields near Washington, D.C., to be placed inside a vault in the Lees’ rose garden. -Smithsonian

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