1. Chapter 15
Section 5

2. After Antietam ( )
Remember, the North clamed Antietam as a victory
However, things begin to go badly again for the North shortly after
McClellan fired for not pursuing Lee’s army at Antietam (too cautious)

3. Ambrose Burnside - Fredericksburg
Ambrose Burnside takes over as the North’s general in the East at battle of Fredericksburg
Used traditional tactics of fighting
Charge after charge led to HUGE casualties (opposite of McClellan, not cautious enough!)

4. Joseph Hooker “Fighting Joe”
Takes over for Burnside
May Hooker’s army was destroyed at the Battle of Chancellorsville by a Southern force ½ its size!
However, the South loses Stonewall Jackson in this battle (HUGE loss for the South!)

5. The Road to Gettysburg: 1863
Victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville encourage General Lee to push north to Gettysburg, possibly ending the war!
Lee’s armies advance on Union positions over and over from July 1 – July 3, 1863
Even though both armies suffer large casualties, Robert E. Lee loses 1/3 of his forces in this battle, and this is a HUGE loss for the South

6. Gettysburg Casualties

7. The War in the West - July 4, 1863: Vicksburg
Grant began a siege on the city in May 1863
This continued for six weeks until the Confederates finally surrendered
This Southern loss gave the North full control of the Mississippi River
Second part of the Anaconda Plan DONE!

8. The Progress of War:

9. The Gettysburg Address
Four score 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. 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 battle-field of that war. 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.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 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. 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.

10. Ulysses S. Grant
1864 Lincoln turns to General Grant to lead all Union forces
Grant comes to the East and hammers away at Lee’s armies for 7 weeks
Grant lays siege to Petersburg, just like he had in Vicksburg

11. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” through Georgia, 1864
At the same time Grant was laying siege to Petersburg, Sherman began to tear a path across the South
Sherman’s “total war” and takeover of Atlanta was perfect timing for the re-election of President Lincoln in late 1864

12. 1864 Election
Pres. Lincoln (R)
George McClellan (D)

13. Presidential Election Results: 1864

14. The Final Virginia Campaign: 1864-1865
After the fall of Petersburg the South falls apart very quickly

15. Surrender at Appomattox April 9, 1865

16. Casualties on Both Sides

17. Civil War Casualties in Comparison to Other Wars

18. Ford’s Theater (April 14, 1865)

19. The Assassin
John Wilkes Booth

20. The Assassination

21. WANTED~~!!

22. Now He Belongs to the Ages!

23. The Execution