African Americans had to serve in seperate regiments
Led by white officers
54th Massachussetts
South only armed slaves very late in the war
Freedom as an incentive
Battle of Gettysburg
Most pivotal battle of the CW
Southern Pennsylvania
South takes the offense
July 1-3, 63
Union Victory
Confederates never take offensive again
28,000 C, 23,000 U dead
1st Day
Union army has followed Lee into Pennsylvania from Virginia
Confederates are "Looking for shoes"
Union takes the high ground
Confederates occupy Oak Hill and Seminary Ridge
2nd Day
Armies continue to gather
Conf. occupy town
Union (under Meade)
3rd Day
General Lee still sure an assault from the center will win
Pickett's charge
After Gettysburg
July 4, 63
The next day, Vicksburg, MS, captured by Grant after siege of several months. July 4th not celebrated in Vicksburg for 60 years after
Months later Lincoln goes to Gettysburg to dedicate a cemetery
Union wages total war
Confed. lacks everything
Grant fights Lee in VA
Union 65000 to Confed 35000 dead
Union could replace dead, Confed couldn't
Meanwhile, Sherman raided Georgia
General Sherman, Union
"War is Hell"
Fight civilians as well as gov and army
Break the will of enemy
Burned down Atlanta
Annihilating everything in his path to break their will
Battle of Atlanta
Shermans March to the Sea
Southeast march through Georgia
60 mile wide path of destruction
Destroy what can't consume
Captured Savannah, Georgia in Dec. 21
Turns North to South Carolina
Destroys Charleston and Columbia
End of the War
April 1865
Grant defeats Lee at Petersburg
Davis abandons and burns Confed capitol
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, April 9
Lincoln's terms are generous
Lets the Confederates go home
Reconstruction
Lincolns 10 Percent plan
10 percent of Confederates must pledge oath to Union
Pay reperations
No more Southern military
Assasination
Lincoln shot a few days after surrender
John Wilkes Booth is Southern sympathizer, shoots Lincoln in the back of the head
Escapes, captured 12 days later
Tragedy
Would work with South for reconstruction
Replaced by Andrew Johnson, from Tennessee
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