The Turning Point

Chapter 9Section 4

The Battle Of Vicksburg

The battle of Vicksburg lasted from May 1863-

July1864.

The Battle of Vicksburg

General Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. John Pemberton

where the generals during

the Battle of Vicksburg.

The Battle of Vicksburg

Over 30,000 men where in the war.

The Battle of Vicksburg

Port Huston is where the battle of Vicksburg took

place.

The Battle of Vicksburg

Vicksburg sat on a balcony on the

river and had the chance to shoot

oncoming enemy river boats in both

directions.

Why did President Lincoln want the Union army to

capture Vicksburg?

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• At about the same time Grant was fighting in Vicksburg, Robert E. Lee was invading the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Battle of Gettysburg

• The Battle of Gettysburg fought between July 1 – July 3, 1863, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's turning point.

• The Battle was the turning point in the Civil War because it almost destroyed the Army of Northern Virginia.

Causalities

• There were heavy losses on both sides. The Confederates had about 28,00028,000 men killed, wounded or missing.

• The Union had about 22,00022,000 men killed, wounded or missing.

• There were so many wounded men left behind that there were 10 wounded soldiers for every survivor in Gettysburg.

Tennessee Soldiers

• Tennessee’s Fourteenth Regiment began the battle with 365 soldiers.

• When the battle ended, only three men had survived.

Confederate Dead

Over 618,000 military deaths during Civil War.

What was the result of Pickets

charge?

Gettysburg Address

• On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg to dedicate a cemetery for those who had died there.

• A crowd of 6,000 gathered for the ceremony.

Gettysburg Address

• Lincoln gave a short speech that lasted for less than three minutes.

• Lincoln’s speech was so short that many people in the crowd were disappointed.

• Lincoln thought the speech was a “flat failure.”

Gettysburg Address

• In the years that followed, The Gettysburg Address was recognized as one of the most inspiring messages ever delivered by an American president.

What did the speech say?

• He spoke about the ideals of liberty and equality on which the country had been founded.

• He honored the soldiers who had died defending those ideals.

• He called on Americans to try harder to win the struggle the soldiers had died for.

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.

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 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.

Gettysburg Address

• 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.

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.

Abraham LincolnNovember 19, 1863

Why was capturing Chattanooga

important to the Union?

Using the graphic organizer below to list the results of the Battle of Gettysburg?