Fast and Curious Civil War Lesson 5

1863, this three day battle was the bloodiest of the entire Civil War, ended in a Union victory, and is considered the turning point of the war

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Pickett's Charge

• Wilderness Campaign

A series of brutal clashes between Ulysses S. Grant's and Robert E. Lee's armies in Virginia, leading up to Grant's capture of Richmond in April of 1865. Having lost Richmond, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Pickett's Charge

• Wilderness Campaign

April 1865., the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Pickett's Charge

• Wilderness Campaign

disastrous attempt by Pickett’s troops to storm Cemetery Ridge

• Gettysburg Address

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Pickett's Charge

• Total War

strategy in which both civilian and military resources are destroyed

• Gettysburg Address

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Pickett's Charge

• Total War

Burning live stock and crops to prevent the enemy from living off the land

• Gettysburg Address

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Willam Tecumseh Sherman

• Total War

2nd most important Union General who introduced total war in "the march to the sea." He destroyed crops, towns, and farms everywhere he went.

• Gettysburg Address

• George Pickett

• Willam Tecumseh Sherman

• Total War

Confederate general who carried out Lee’s orders to charge the Union line

• Gettysburg Address

• George Pickett

• Willam Tecumseh Sherman

• Total War

(1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights

• Gettysburg Address

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Pickett's Charge

• Total War