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| Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville | Two southern victories which gave Gen. Lee hope of winning the war. |
| Stonewall Jackson | After his brilliant victory at Chancellorsville he was accidentally shot and killed by one of his own Confederate soldiers. |
| Pickett's Charge | 15,000 Confederate soldiers attacked the Union troops at Cemetary Ridge, and most were killed in this doomed battle. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | More than 40,000 were killed or wounded in this three day bloodbath in Pennsylvania. |
| Gettysburg Address | Three minute speech given by President Lincoln to honor the dead killed at Gettysburg. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Appointed commander of the Union forces after his victory at Vicksburg. |
| General Philip Sheridan | He was instructed by Grant to destroy everything that could not be used when invading the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. |
| General William Tecumseh Sherman | He also had orders to destroy everything useful to the South from Atlanta, GA to the sea. |
| Total war | A new type of combat which affected civilians and soldiers alike. Everything that was not used by the North was destroyed. |
| Presidential election of 1864 | General McCellan and Lincoln oppose each other and Lincoln wins. |
| Battles of the Wilderness,Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor | 60,000 troops are killed in one month at these battles under the command of General Grant |
| Petersburg | Here Gen. Grant kept Gen. Lee under seige for 9 months until 04/02/1865 |
| April 2, 1865 | Richmond, the Confederate capital, was captured by union forces. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Small Virginia town where General Lee surrendered to General Grant to end the Civil War |
| April 9, 1865 | American Civil War ends on this day in history. |
| General Ambrose Burnside | Confederate general who led the victorious attack at Fredericksburg |
| Crops, railroads, barns, factories, and homes | These things were destroyed in the "total war" policy of the North |
| Terms of surrender | Southern soldiers gave up their rifles, officers kept their pistols, and everyone kept their horses |
| "It is a flat failure." | Lincoln's view of his now famous Gettsyburg Address |
