Civil War Felix Mitchell

Civil War Felix Mitchell

1. Abraham Lincoln

   • President
     • Wrote and delivered gettysburg address

2. General Lee

   • Confederate Generals
     • Jeb Stuart
       • Wasn't performing his duties during the first day of "Battle of Gettysburg"
     • General james long-street
     • General Ewell

3. Union Generals

   • George G.Meade
   • Sherman

4. Battle of gettysburg:First day

   • General Lee cut across Northern Maryland into Southern Pennsylvania
     • Lee's forces gathered in Gettysburg
       • Union soldiers run into Confederates at Gettysburg
         • South pushes North back.
   • July 1863
   • Pennsylvania,gettysburg

5. Battle of Gettysburg: Second Day

   • Gettysburg,Pennsylvania
     • July 2nd 1863
   • Lee orders an attack on the left side of the union line.
     • The confederates attacked cemetery hill and Culp's Hill. It was unsuccessful
       • The confederates did manage to take a few trenches on Culp's Hill.

6. Battle of Gettysburg: Pickett's charge

   • July 3rd 1863
   • 1 mile at cemetery ridge. Long street tells Lee not too attack, Lee attacks anyways.
   • The confederates shoots cannons at cemetery ridge. Pickett charges cemetery ridge. Pickett's men get blown away by cannons. Meade does not pursue.
     • So Lee's troops will never again attack North.Britain wouldn't help the confederacy.
       • Pickett's charge proved a disaster for the Confederate attackers. Fewer then half of them survived.

7. Gettysburg was a turning point in the war. Lee's troops would never again launch an attack in the North

8. Aftermath of Gettysburg

9. The Gettysburg Address

   • November 19th 1863
   • Ideals of Liberty,equality and Democracy