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November 7, 1862
• President Lincoln replaced McClellan with Gen. Ambrose Burnside
Trivia-some say this is where we get the word sideburns!
Dec.13,1862 FredericksburgDec.13,1862 Fredericksburg
• Burnside lost Burnside lost 12,653 men to 12,653 men to Lee’s 5,309.Lee’s 5,309.
• Lee’s famous Lee’s famous quote: “It is well quote: “It is well that war is so that war is so terrible, lest we terrible, lest we grow too fond of grow too fond of it.”it.”
Jan. 1, 1863 • Lincoln issued Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in Confederate states only.
Jan. 25, 1863
• Lincoln posted Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside.
Jan. 29, 1863
• Ulysses S. Grant was made Commander of the West.
May 1-4, 1863 Chancellorsville, VA
• Lee outmaneu-vered Hooker, but lost his “right arm” Stonewall Jackson to friendly fire.
• After his left arm was amputated, Jackson’s chaplain buried it at Ellwood, a nearby plantation. Jackson soon died from pneumonia.
June 28, 1863
• Lincoln replaced Hooker with Meade, the 5th change in command.
July 1-3, 1863 Gettysburg, PA
• Lee’s forces took a Lee’s forces took a devastating downward turn.devastating downward turn.
July 4, 1863 Vicksburg,
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• Grant’s siege took Grant’s siege took its toll on the city its toll on the city and cut off the and cut off the Confederacy from Confederacy from the West.the West.
July 13-16, 1863 Anti-Draft Riots
• Poor immigrants in NY protested Lincoln’s draft laws, which they said would give their jobs to blacks. There was chaos, murder, and arson in the streets.
July 18, 1863 Ft. Wagner, SC • ½ of the 600 ½ of the 600
“negro “negro troops” in troops” in the 54the 54thth MassachuseMassachusetts and their tts and their commander, commander, Robert Robert Shaw, were Shaw, were killed.killed.
*The movie Glory is about Shaw and the 54th!
Sept. 19-20,1863 Chickamauga
• Gen. Braxton Braggs trapped Gen. Rosencrans’ Union troops at Chattanooga.
Nov. 23-25, 1863Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain
• Grant’s forces lifted the siege and pushed back Bragg’s troops at Chattanooga.
March 9,
1864
• Grant became Commander of all Federal forces. Sherman replaced him in the West.
Sept. 2, 1864
• Sherman took Atlanta, a huge blow to the South.
Nov. 15,
1864
• Sherman destroyed warehouses, rail facilities, etc. He began his infamous “March to the Sea.”
Sherman burned AtlantaSherman burned Atlanta
Dec. 15-16, 1864 NashvilleNashville
• Feds led by Feds led by Thomas Thomas greatly out-greatly out-numbered numbered and and crushed crushed Hood’sHood’s forces.forces.
Dec. 24, 1864• Sherman took Sherman took
Savannah and offered Savannah and offered it to Lincoln as a it to Lincoln as a Christmas gift.Christmas gift.
March 4, 1865March 4, 1865
• Lincoln’s 2Lincoln’s 2ndnd inaugurationinauguration
John Wilkes Booth is in this picture, too!
April 2, 1865 Petersburg,VA
• Lee’s line of defense crumbled and Grant moved the Union army into Richmond.
April 9, 1865
• Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
April 14, 1865
• President Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater.
May 1865
• Last Confederates surrendered. Total lives lost: over 620,000.
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