Battle Of Gettysburg
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
THE bATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
BY: GABBY BICKERTON
DAY 1:
OF GETTYSBURG
When hearing that the Potomac was on their way, Robert E.Lee planned to assemble his army on the crossroads of Gettysburg. 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
By dusk, Union Corps had arrived and helped extend the defensive line from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top (a hill.) Three more Union corps arrived over night to help the defenses.
When the next day came, Lee assessed his enemy's positions. He ordered that they attack the Union from their left and right side. Though it was really early in the morning, the men got into position to fight and fire.
At 4:00pm, Lee's men opened fire on the Union corps. For several hours after that, a bloody battle raged on from Devil's Den to a peach orchard. The federals were able to hold back the union from getting Little Round Top.
Both armies had suffered extremely heavy larges on July 2, 9,000 or more men were dead on both sides. The total casualty loss from both days of war was 35,000 men.
Sensing that his men were on the brink of victory, Lee decided to send three divisions against the Union center on Cemetery Ridge. Fewer then 15,000 troops led under George Pickett would be marching some three-quarters of a mile across an open fields to attack Union soldiers.
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Around 3 pm, an attack was placed also known as "Pickett's Charge" after an artillery bombardment by some 150 Union soldiers. Regiments from New York, Ohio, and Vermont hit both of the enemy flanks, catching them by surprise.
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Barely half of the confederates survived and only two thirds of Pickett's division had died. Survivors stumbled back into their opening positions while Lee and Longstreet scrambled to shore up their defensive line after the failure.
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After effects and impacts:
On July 4th, 1863, Lee waited for a counterattack from the Union. It never came. That same night, the Union General withdrew his army towards Virginia, instead of attacking Lee's army.
Gettysburg was a crushing defeat for the Confederacy.
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The Union side lost about 23,000 men while the Confederates lost about 28,000 men. After Gettysburg, the North rejoiced while the South mourned.
This battle turned the tide of the Civil War in the Unions favor.
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Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg and presented the Gettysburg Address in only 272 words!
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