1. The Battle of Gettysburg
The Turning Point of the War

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

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

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

5. Gettysburg Map

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

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

8. Pickett’s Charge- attack the center

9. 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

10. “General Lee, I have no division now”
“General Lee, I have no division now”. . .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

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

12. Battle of Gettysburg Music Video

13. Gettysburg Address
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
4 x years ago our founding fathers brought to North America a new nation- The United States of America- born out of freedom and dedicated to the idea that ALL men (all races) are created equal.

14. Gettysburg Address
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
Now we are involved in a huge war- testing if the U.S. (born out of freedom) can exist. Here we are at Gettysburg- a battlefield of that war.

15. Gettysburg Address
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
We are here to dedicate a part of that field as a burial place- for those people who died here so that our nation could exist and endure. It is the right thing to do.

16. Gettysburg Address
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
But in a larger sense, we can’t dedicate or make sacred this ground. The brave men who fought here- both killed and wounded, have already made it sacred far better than our power to do so.

17. Gettysburg Address
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
The rest of the world will not remember what we said here on this day, but the world will never forget what those people who died here did. It is for us the living to devote ourselves to the unfinished work (securing freedom for all people, carrying out the hopes and dreams of the founding fathers, prove that a democracy can work) which those that we are remembering today have already advanced.

18. Gettysburg Address
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Those that died at Gettysburg did not die in vain- but died to advance the cause which is that this nation guided by God, shall have a second birth of freedom- one in which ALL men will be free-- and that democracy shall not perish from this Earth