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CHAPTER 15CHAPTER 15
Blood and Freedom, 1863 - 1867
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People at War: Spring 1863People at War: Spring 1863
Soldier life was harsh, with disease killing twice as many as wounds
Both sides used courage, hatred, and religious fervor to justify the carnage
Civilians on both sides begin to question reasons for war
Lincoln’s critics become more vocal Conscription Act
War Department created Department of Colored Troops
Black Soldiers in the Union Army
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The Battlefields of Summer: 1863The Battlefields of Summer: 1863
Lee wins at Fredericksburg, but at high cost 13,000 causalities Stonewall Jackson killed
Lee is defeated at Gettysburg 35,000 causalities
Vicksburg falls to Grant Union controls Mississippi River
Immigrant battle losses contributed to draft riots in New York City
Grant takes command of eastern theater Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg,
July 1-3, 1863
Virginia, 1863
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The Winter of Discontent:1863 -1864The Winter of Discontent:1863 -1864
Political foes oppose both Lincoln and Davis Confederate prison camps earn terrible
reputations Grant takes control of entire Union army Southerner Andrew Johnson becomes Lincoln’s
running mate in 1864 election Sherman’s March to Sea breaks will of South Lincoln’s re-elected
Grant Against Lee in Virginia
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Battle of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania
Campaign for Atlanta, May-September 1864
Election of 1864
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From War to Reconstruction: 1865 - From War to Reconstruction: 1865 - 18671867
Thirteenth Amendment is enacted War ends on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox
Courthouse Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s Theatre April 14
John Wilkes Booth Consequences of War
620,000 American dead Destruction of Southern economy North passed significant legislature
Emancipation brings less than true freedom to blacks in South Freedmen’s Bureau
Territory of War
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Black MobilizationBlack Mobilization
Major goal of blacks in South was gaining vote Johnson followed Lincoln’s moderate plan for
reconstruction of South
“black codes” Radicals in Congress override Johnson and passed
Fourteenth Amendment Reconstruction Act divides and occupies South
Ku Klux Klan
Northerners head South to help blacks African American elected to some state
constitutional conventions
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Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions
What was the significance of the battle of Gettysburg? Was it the turning point of the war?
How did Grant and Sherman change the face of the war?
How did the death of Lincoln effect reconstruction? Did radical republicans help or hurt civil rights for blacks in the South?
What were the total costs and consequences of the Civil War?
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