The Turning Point Chapter 9 Section 4

 Complete the Battle Graph on page 336  Write the Battle and the Results in Your Graph HOMEWORK

 THE UNION VICTORY AT VICKSBURG CUTS THE CONFEDERACY IN TWO Big Idea

Lincoln saw Vicksburg as key to the war Vicksburg located on east bank of Mississippi River in Mississippi Grant’s troops marched 180 miles in 17 days, fought 5 battles and caused 7,200 Confederate casualties Vicksburg Falls

 Siege of Vicksburg lasted 6 weeks  Grant’s strategy was to siege - to cut off its food and supplies and bombard until defenders gave up – on Vicksburg  Confederate troops and residents faced starvation  July 4, 1863, Confederate commander surrenders Vicksburg (cont)

 Lincoln fires McClellan for letting Lee advance and defend Richmond  November 1862, Lincoln promotes General Ambrose Burnside as commander of the army  At Fredericksburg Union troops suffer 12,000 casualties  Burnside is replaced with General Joseph Hooker The Road to Gettysburg

 Gettysburg located in Pennsylvania  General George Meade replaces Hooker after Hooker defeated repeatedly at Chancellorsville, Virginia  Confederate General George Pickett orders a charge, known as Pickett’s Charge  A mile-wide line of Confederate troops marched on Union troops on Cemetery Ridge  Union cannons and rifles opened fire, causing 7,000 casualties in 30 minutes Gettysburg

 Confederate forces lost 28,000 killed or wounded, 1/3 of Lee’s entire force  Union loses 23,000  Turning point of the war  Ensured Britain would not recognize Confederacy  Robert E. Lee’s forces fight on defensive rest of war Gettysburg (cont)