Bennett Chapter 10
PART II
Lincoln at Gettysburg
Spoke only 2 minutes and was almost not even
invited to the dedication.
Preceded by Edward Everett who was John Bell’s
running mate in 1860
Spoke for 2 hours
Petersburg, VA
-Confederate troops began digging in
-Trench warfare
-Boobey traps, mines, and grenades
Copperheads
-Northern Democrats who were against the war
-Tried to undermine Lincoln’s efforts for winning
the war
-Negotiate with the Confederacy
54th Massachusetts
- All black regiment led by Robert Gould Shaw
-No quarter for black troops fighting against the
Confederacy
-led the Union to stop prisoner
exchanges
-Fort Wagoner
-First Black Congressional Medal
of Honor recipient
William Harvey Carney
•18 July 1863
•Wounded several times.
Planted the flag on the parapet until the
retreat took place.
Making his way across the battlefield during the
retreat he was hit two more times.
v "Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never
touched the ground!“ –Wm. Harvey Carney
•Awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor 37 years later.
Grant Takes Control
• Grant led the siege of Vicksburg and the fall of
Chattanooga.
• March 1864, Grant was put in control of Union
forces
Sherman
• Sherman left from
Chattanooga headed
toward Atlanta
• Total war
• 60 mile wide swath cut
through Georgia
• From Atlanta he went to
Savannah & back up
into the Carolinas
• “Neck Ties”
Sherman’s March
Election of 1864
• Lincoln was challenged by his fired Gen. Geo.
McClellan
• John A. Logan campaigned for Lincoln in IL
Deadly Close
• Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that
this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass
away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the
wealth piled by the bond-men’s two hundred and
fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and
until every drop of blood drawn with the lash,
shall be paid by another drawn by the sword, as
was said three thousand years ago, so still it must
be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and
righteous altogether.”
“I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just.”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1785
• With malice toward none; with charity for all;
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to
see the right, let us strive on to finish the work
we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to
care for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all
which may achieve and cherish a just, and a
lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all
nations.
Arlington Cemetery
Arlington Cemetery was Robert E. Lee’s farm
Cemetery was established to further punish Lee
for siding with the Confederacy
Appomattox Court House, VA
-Lee’s troops were starving and each attempt to
gain supplies was thwarted by the Union.
-Lincoln knew the key to winning the war was to
destroy Lee’s army
Appomattox Court House
• April 9, 1865, Lee surrenders
• to Grant
• Wilmer McLean
Lincoln’s Assassination
-Lincoln chose to attend a play at Ford’s Theater
instead of going to a ceremony at Ft. Sumter.
-Booth
-Conspirators
Death
• April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to Ford’s Theatre
• Shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth
• Died April 15, 1865 Easter Sunday
John Wilkes Booth
• Actor
• Jumped from the balcony
after shooting Lincoln and
broke his leg
• Had his leg set by Dr.
Samuel Mudd
• Later he was surrounded
and shot in a burning barn
– Shot by Sgt. Boston
Corbett
• Booth is pulled from the
burning barn and dies