BE PREPARED…
 Take out the Gettysburg packet (from yesterday)
TODAY WE WILL…
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Evaluate the decision by Lee to attack the center of the Union line at
Gettysburg
Evaluate the results of the Battle of Gettysburg and the significance of the
Gettysburg Address
Identify the significance of the capture of Vicksburg
HOMEWORK:
 T.A.S.K. (last day is Thursday!)
 Study for Finals
Q1: EXPLAIN
what this picture shows happened on the second day of the
Battle of Gettysburg.
A: The
Union holds their flank on Little Round Top.
Robert E. Lee
View from Cemetery Ridge
Towards Seminary Ridge
Why is this such a daring move by the
Confederates to attack across this field?
Union’s
View
(high ground)
Day 3 = July 3, 1863
Lee orders
Gen. George Pickett
to lead 15,000 troops to
attack middle of Union
line (PICKETT’S CHARGE)
 Marched 1,000 yards
across an open field
and up a steep slope
 Confederates suffered
huge losses
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This is the UNION’s view of the field Lee’s men are going to walk through
on “Pickett’s Charge”, which Pickett does not lead (fyi).
15,000
Confederates
soldiers will march
a little less than a
mile, up a sloping
hill with zero
cover
View From Seminary Ridge
Towards Cemetery Ridge
Hahaha…
Your cannons are
firing too high and
aren’t doing a lot
of damage!
Confederates’
View (open field)
CONFEDERATE ARTILLERY
FIRES TOO HIGH
The charge will fail. After the failure, LEE will be hurt muttering over and over, “It’s
all my fault” and the Confederates will never recover from the loss.
The causalities suffered at the Battle of Gettysburg totaled,
Union = 23,000
Confederate = 28,000
“It’s all
my fault”
As you watch the scene of PICKETT’s CHARGE, please write down what it
is you notice during the scene. aka things that you find interesting,
questions you may have, or simply a comment you want to share.
Pickett’s Charge
(6:24-32:10)
Significance of Gettysburg
(battle chart)
 Turning
point of
the war
 Confederates
never invaded the
North again
 Over 50,000 men
lay dead or were
wounded
Gettysburg Address
 November
19, 1863 –
Ceremony
dedicating memory
of soldiers who died
at Gettysburg
 Lincoln delivered a
speech
A
test whether a
democratic nation
could survive
 Only 10 sentences long
 Took 3 minutes to
deliver
Hanging on Mr. B’s wall
(don’t get any ideas…it’s
not worth anything!)
Gettysburg Address
(Delivered at Gettysburg Cemetery)
Victory in the West
 Grant’s
forces surrounded Vicksburg and
blockaded the city for 6 weeks
 No food or supplies came in
 Confederates ran out of food
 Resorted to eating dogs and rats
 Confederates forced to surrender on July 4, 1863
Significance of Vicksburg
(battle chart)
 Union
controlled the Mississippi
 Cut off Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas
from rest of Confederacy
VICKSBURG,
MS.