Chancellorsville to Chattanooga

Lincoln replaced Burnside with Joseph Hooker

Hooker attacked Lee’s army near the old Fredericksburg battlefield

Lee divided his army and attacked Hooker’s army from the rear

Stonewall Jackson was killed by his own men

Lee’s greatest victory

• Lee invaded Pennsylvania with 70,000 troops

• Lincoln replaced Hooker with George Gordon Meade

• Two armies accidently confronted each other at Gettysburg

• Confederate troops pushed the Union defenses along Culp’s Hill, Little Round Top, and Devil’s Den, but fail to break the Union line

15,000 Rebel troops attack the Union center

The attack is shattered, over half of the Rebels are killed or captured

Gettysburg was a decisive turning point in the war

• July 4, 1863 Ulysses S. Grant cut the Confederacy in half by taking Vicksburg after a six week siege

• Sept. 19-20, 1863 Battle of Chickamauga the Confederates win a major battle in north Georgia, second bloodiest battle of the war

• However their siege of Chattanooga is broken by Grant in Nov. at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge

United States Colored Troops

Formed in 1863 Commanded by

white officers 10% of the Union

army Fort Wagner and

the 54th Massachusetts

People moved into the city in greater numbers to take manufacturing jobs in the North

Draft riots in the cities Hardships at home left many in the South

in miserable conditions Many women became nurses, spies, and

advocates for reforms Exemptions from the army