The Turning Point 1863
Seige of Vicksburg and Capture of Mississpii
- VIcksburg surrenders to Grant
- City laid seige to for weeks before surrender
Leeās invasion of Pennsylvania
- Confederacy is in the north and they might be able to go further but they canāt
- Battle of Gettysburg is the bloodiest battle of the war
- Located in a crossroads town and the Union wins
- Popular opinion turns in favor of war
- Lee flees the north
- Lincoln gives Gettysburg address at a ceremony for the soldiers killed in the battle
Grant Takes Command
- Lincoln chooses Ulysses S Grant to be the commander of all Union forces
- His reasoning was that he fights
- Lincoln engaged in a strategy of total war that mobilized all of societyās resources towards winning
- Also destroyed everything the enemy could use to their advantage in order to gain an advantage
- War of Attrition: fight until your enemy gets tired
- Union has more supplies, more soldiers, etc
- Overland Campaign
- Lee held strong defensive positions and only attacked when he had the advantage
- Seige of Petersburg
- brutal fighting and put lincoln out of favor