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Lee's Army of Northern Virginia suffered a devastating defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. Over the three day battle, Lee launched multiple assaults on the Union flanks and center, including the famous Pickett's Charge on July 3rd, but was unable to break the Union lines. The failed charge resulted in heavy Confederate casualties and marked a turning point from which the Confederacy struggled to recover. Lee was forced to retreat from Gettysburg, dealing a significant blow to the Confederate cause.
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Lee led Confederate troops into Pennsylvania hoping for victory to help the peace movement in the North. At the Battle of Gettysburg over three days in July 1863, the Union and Confederate armies fought fiercely. On the third day, Lee ordered Pickett's Charge, a massive frontal assault on the Union center, but it was repulsed with heavy losses, dealing a crushing defeat to the Confederacy from which it could not recover.Gettysburg s
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Lee's Army of Northern Virginia engaged the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 in Pennsylvania, hoping for a decisive victory in the North to aid the Confederate cause. Over three bloody days of fighting, the Confederates were unable to break through the Union lines and were ultimately repulsed, with heavy losses during Pickett's Charge on the third day. The defeat marked a turning point in the war, as Lee's army retreated from Gettysburg in defeat and the Confederacy would never recover its momentum.Gettysburg s
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Lee launched a campaign into Pennsylvania hoping for victory on Northern soil to help the peace movement in the North, but was met by Union forces at Gettysburg. Over three bloody days of fighting, the Confederates were unable to break through the Union lines and suffered a devastating defeat when Pickett's Charge into the Union center was repulsed with heavy losses. The defeat at Gettysburg, combined with the loss of Vicksburg to Union forces the next day, dealt a major blow to the Confederacy from which they struggled to recover.The Battle Of Gettysburg
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The Civil War began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. Several other southern states then seceded from the Union. Both sides had advantages and disadvantages in the early war. The Union had more population and industry while the Confederacy had better generals. The first major battle was at Bull Run in July 1861, which showed both sides the war would not be short. Major battles in later years included Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and in 1864, Sherman's March to the Sea and Grant's Overland Campaign inflicted heavy casualties on the Confederacy. The war ended in April 1865 with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House4.3
4.3Josh Cable
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The tide of the war turned in favor of the North through several key battles and events:
1) After General McClellan was fired, General Burnside took over but suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Fredericksburg trying to take Richmond. He resigned after this defeat.
2) At the Battle of Chancellorsville, General Hooker was outmaneuvered by General Lee, resulting in a Confederate victory, but Stonewall Jackson was accidentally killed by his own troops.
3) The bloody Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was a major turning point, culminating in the failed Pickett's Charge that ended fighting on July 3rd and led to the retreat of Confederate forces from Union soil.
4) The Union1865: The Year They Drove Old Dixie Down
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FinalbattlechartSteven Kim
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1. The document summarizes 20 major battles of the American Civil War between 1861-1864, listing the date, location, outcome, and one significant point about each battle. Key battles included Fort Sumter (the opening battle), First Bull Run (the first major battle), Antietam (which preceded the Emancipation Proclamation), Gettysburg (a major Union victory that turned the tide), Vicksburg (cutting the Confederacy in half), and Petersburg (a long siege). The document provides a high-level overview of some of the most important battles in the first few years of the Civil War.Chapter 6 mississippi studies 10 6-14
Chapter 6 mississippi studies 10 6-14Allison Barnette
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The document summarizes key events of the Civil War in Mississippi, including the formation of the Confederate States, battles at Corinth and Shiloh in 1862, multiple campaigns to take Vicksburg led by Grant and Sherman from 1862-1863, the siege and surrender of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, and the end of the war in 1865. It also discusses the roles of African American troops from Mississippi in the Union army.Civil war battles
Civil war battlesMrsBell
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The document summarizes several key Civil War battles and events:
1) The First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 resulted in a Confederate victory, giving them early confidence.
2) The Battle of Antietam in September 1862 ended in a Union victory, after which Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
3) The three-day Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 was a major Union victory that turned the tide of the war, though Pickett's Charge took a heavy toll on the Confederates.
4) The Civil War ended in April 1865 with Lee's surrender, but Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth shortly thereafter at Ford's Theatre.Civil war battles
Civil war battlesMrMatthis
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The document summarizes several key Civil War battles and events:
1) The First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 resulted in a Confederate victory, giving them early confidence.
2) The Battle of Antietam in September 1862 ended in a Union victory, after which Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
3) The three-day Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 was a major Union victory that turned the tide of the war, though Pickett's Charge took a heavy toll on the Confederates.
4) The Civil War ended in April 1865 with Lee's surrender, but John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre shortly thereafter.1863
1863Kathy Hughes
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The document summarizes several key battles and events of the American Civil War in 1863, including Confederate General Stonewall Jackson being fatally wounded at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee's army marching through Maryland and encountering the Union at Gettysburg leading to Pickett's Charge, Lincoln delivering the brief Gettysburg Address dedicating a cemetery at the battlefield, and Ulysses S. Grant's multiple attacks culminating in the Union taking control of Vicksburg, Mississippi and gaining control of the Mississippi River.More from tritondboyle (20)
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- 1. Point of no return
- 2. Last chance? Confederate General Robert E. Lee realized that something needed to change if the war were to ever come to an end.
- 3. Last chance? After witnessing the carnage at Frederickburg, VA in December, 1862, Lee said It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it, as he watched 12,000 Union soldiers get mowed
- 4. Last chance? At Chancellorsville, VA, 5 months later, Lee again won a great victory, perhaps his best in the war, but lost his most important general, Stonewall Jackson, when Jackson was accidentally shot at night by his own troops.
- 5. Last chance? Lee decided that another attempt at victory in the North might help those people who supported peace in the North (Copperheads or Peace Democrats), or would at worst disrupt the Union war effort.
- 6. Last chance? On July 1, 1863, Lees troops moved toward the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg and surprisingly met a group of Union cavalry there.
- 7. Last chance? Even though the cavalry was quickly reinforced by two Union corps, two large Confederate corps joined the battle and forced the Union troops to Cemetary Hill on the southern side of the city, who then set themselves in a fish hook style formation.
- 8. Last chance? The Confederate troops took up their position along Seminary Ridge, so-called because of the theological school (now Gettysburg College) at one end of the line.
- 9. Last chance? By the second day, July 2, 1863, both great armies (Confederates = 72,000, Union = 94,000) had arrived and most of the fighting took place on the left end of the Union line.
- 10. Last chance? The fighting was focused around a small, rocky hill called Little Round Top which was being defended by troops from the 20 th Maine Regiment under the leadership of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a Bowdoin College professor.
- 11. Last chance? The Confederates charged up Little Round Top as many as five times, and each time were sent back, the last one being when Chamberlain ordered a bayonet charge and captured a large number of the attackers.
- 12. Sent packing By the time the third day of the battle, July 3, 1863, rolled around, Lee believed that the center of the Union line would be weakest.
- 13. Sent packing He believed the attacks on both the right and left flanks the day before had forced Union leaders to pull troops out of the center and there was no way they could have moved them back in time.
- 14. Sent packing Lee ordered General George Pickett to lead a charge of his Virginians, who had not been in action the day before, on the Union
- 15. Sent packing At around 3 PM, after 2 hours of artillery fire, General Pickett led 12,500 troops across 他 of mile of open field toward the center of the Union line, even having to climb over fences to get there.
- 16. Sent packing The Confederates struggled to reach the Union position because of Union artillery, but were still able to make a slight break in the Union lines, before reinforcements came up and closed it quickly.
- 17. Sent packing Fewer than 遜 of the men who made Picketts Charge returned to the Confederate lines.
- 18. Sent packing It had been a brutal defeat for the Confederacy and one, along with the announcement of the loss of the city of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River the next day, that they would struggle to recover from.