1. 16-5 The Way to Victory

2. DECEMBER

3. Important facts about
Battle of
Fredericksburg (J)

4. Generals
Union
Ambrose Burnside Q
Confederates
Robert E. Lee I

5. Union soldiers attempt to build pontoon bridge (while under fire- white smoke in background)

7. Battle of Fredericksburg
Delays allowed the Confederates to become “entrenched” on high ground outside of town.

8. Example of entrenched Confederate troops

9. Here is the stonewall
Confederates
were “entrenched”
behind at the top
of Marye’s Heights

10. Battle of Fredericksburg
Burnside ordered his men to take the heights on the opposite side of the river
They failed – after more than 10 attempts
Thousands of men lay wounded on the field that night!
A Confederate officer asked to go over the wall and give water and aid to those fallen soldiers

11. Importance of the Battle of Fredericksburg:
Overwhelming Union defeat
Burnside withdrawals from Fredericksburg
Burnside then resigns (quits)

12. MAY 1863

13. Battle of Chancellorsville (E)
Union general
Joe Hooker (U)
Confederate general
Robert E. Lee (I)
Stonewall Jackson (G)

14. Important facts about Battle of Chancellorsville
Occurs May 1-4th, 1863
Confederate victory
Lee considers it his “most perfect” victory
Also it is his greatest loss—why?
Stonewall Jackson is accidentally killed by his own troops on the last night of the battle
Confederacy decides to invade North again!

15. Battle of Chancellorsville
Lee learned of the wounding of Jackson in his left arm and was rumored to say:
“HE HAS LOST HIS LEFT ARM
AND I HAVE LOST MY RIGHT”

16. Jackson’s burial site
Lexington, Virginia

18. JULY

19. Battle of Gettysburg (H)

20. Battle of Gettysburg Important Facts
Union general
George Meade (D)
Confederate general
Robert E Lee (I)
Largest battle of war –
150,000 total men involved
Turning point battle of the war
Bloodiest battle of war - 50,000 total casualties
First major Union victory
3 Day Battle
July 1,2,3

21. Gettysburg – July 3,1863 PICKETT’S CHARGE (L)
Huge (15,000 ) infantry charge against
Union center.
Confederates casualty rates near 50%
Union lines hold and Confederates retreat

22. Pickett’s Charge
Pickett’s Charge
Fighting at THE ANGLE

23. JULY

24. Final Phase of the War Vicksburg (R)falls
July 4, 1863
Grant (K)is the victorious commander
Union now controls ALL of Miss River!

25. November of 1863

26. William T. Sherman U.S. Grant Grant (K)/Sherman (A) capture
Chattanooga (O), Tennessee
William T. Sherman
U.S. Grant

27. Lincoln at Gettysburg- November 19, 1863.

28. Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863
Why is it so remembered?
Lincoln was able to, in a short speech, tell Americans why the war was important and why the Union needed to win it.
Four score and seven years ago..
Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863

29. main speaker at the Gettysburg
"I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
Edward Everett
main speaker at the Gettysburg
dedication.
Gettysburg Address

30. Gettysburg Address
This is the only photograph of Lincoln during the speech- sitting back down after the speech

31. OUTSIDE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
– June of 1864
SERIES OF BATTLES
OUTSIDE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

32. (K)Grant – June of 1864 The Wilderness (W)-(May 5-7) -1864
Spotsylvania Courthouse (B)
(May 8-21)st
Battle of
Cold Harbor (T)
(May 31st – June 12th)
(K)Grant – June of 1864

33. August 1864
David Farragut (N) captures
Mobile Bay (S), Alabama

34. September / December 1864

35. Sherman (A)-- His forces push thru Tennessee
Eventually he surrounds Atlanta (C)
Takes the city in September 1864
Decides to “March to Sea”
Will take over one month- to march to Savannah (P) - captures city in December

36. Actual telegram

37. Grant --meanwhile

38. Grant – meanwhile Petersburg (F ) Lee fights a long 9 month siege
With Grant’s army.
Petersburg (F )

39. Trench warfare- June 64- April 1865
Soldiers wait in a trench for orders to move forward

40. Trench warfare

41. April 2, 1865 Richmond (V) falls to the Union- April 3
Lee(I) army flees westward

42. April 4, 1865-Lincoln vi

43. April 5
April 7
April 3
April 6
April 8/9
Lee’s Retreat

44. Appomattox Courthouse (M)
This home
was the
site of the
surrender.
Lee (I) surrender
To Grant(K)

45. The Mclean House today!

46. The surrender. There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see
General Grant…..[and] I would rather die a
thousand deaths.
General Robert E. Lee
The surrender.

47. Results More than 600,000 dead Union is triumphant
The federal government has gained power over the state governments.
Lincoln has guided the country through its toughest times since the Revolution.