Chapter 15 Section 5 Notes

Chapter 15 Section 5 Notes

The Tide Turns

After the Union victory at the 1862 ______, the war again seemed to ______.

Burnside knew McClellan had been ______.

So Burnside decided on a ______.
In December 1862, he marched his army of 120,000 men ______.
Lee massed 75,000 men at ______to block their path.
Using traditional tactics, Burnside ______.
The Union suffered nearly ______casualties in the ______and the Confederates nearly ______.

Lincoln next turned to ______, nicknamed ______.

These Confederate victories ______.

He was convinced that a ______would force northerners to ______.
In June 1863, Lee’s troops crossed Maryland and marched into ______.
The Union army, which was now commanded by General ______pursued them.
On July 1, some Confederate soldiers approached the quiet town of ______.
They were looking for ______, which were in short supply in the South because of ______.
Instead of shoes, the Confederates encountered ______.
Shots were ______.
More troops ______>
By evening, the southerners had ______through Gettysburg.
The next day, more than ______.
The center of the Union army was on a hill called ______.
The center of the Confederate position was nearly a ______, on ______.
The fighting raged into the ______as Confederate troops attacked ______.
On the afternoon of July 3, Lee ordered an ______on the ______.
General ______led about 15,000 Confederates across nearly a ______toward ______.
As they advanced, Union ______rained down on them.
Only a ______reached the Union lines and they were quickly ______.

On July 4, 1863, as Lee’s shattered army began its ______, the South suffered another major blow ______.

______surrendered to ______.
It had been one of the ______to remain in ______.
Unable to take Vicksburg by force, Grant had begun a ______in May 1863.
A siege is an: ______.
Day after day, Union guns ______.
Residents took shelter in ______.
They ate ______to keep from starving.
After ______, the 30,000 Confederate troops at Vicksburg finally ______.
A few days later, the last ______on the Mississippi River, ______, also gave up.
The entire river was now ______.

These events, coupled with Lee’s ______, make July 1863 the major ______.

In November 1863, about 15,000 people gathered on the ______to honor the ______.

In what is now known as the ______, Lincoln looked ahead to a ______.
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have ______--that this nation, under God, shall have a ______--and that government ______, ______, and ______, shall not ______.”

Closing In on the Confederacy

In ______, President Lincoln found the kind of commander he had long sought.

In 1864, the President gave him command of ______.
Grant decided that he must attack ______, no matter how large the ______.
Grant’s huge army hammered at the Confederates in a series of battles in ______in the spring of 1864.
He was unable ______, but Grant ______.
Instead, he ______.
After ______, Grant had lost about ______; the Confederates had lost ______.
Grant realized that his army could count on a ______.
Lee, on the other hand, was ______.
The two armies clashed at ______, an important railroad center south of Richmond.
There, in June 1864, Grant began a ______, the tactic he had used at ______.

While Grant besieged Lee, another army under General ______advanced toward ______.
Like Grant, Sherman was a ______.
He believed in ______.
This means ______.
The Confederates could not ______.
The Union army ______on September 2, 1864.
Atlanta’s capture gave President Lincoln’s ______a boost.
In the months before the capture of Atlanta, many northerners had ______.
Support for Lincoln ______.
But after Atlanta’s fall, Lincoln was a huge election victory over ______, the Democrats’ candidate.
In November, Sherman ordered ______.
He then marched ______.
Along the way, Union troops ______, ______, and ______.
They left a path of destruction ______.
In February 1865, the army headed north ______.

Peace at Last

In March 1865, Grant’s army still ______.

For months, Grant had been ______east and west of Petersburg.
Lee knew it was only a matter of time before Grant would ______.
Lincoln, too, saw that the ______.
In his Second Inaugural Address in March 1865, he asked Americans to ______.
“With malice toward none; with charity for all;…let us strive together…to ______.”

On April 2, Grant’s troops finally ______.

The Civil War was the ______.