28 civil war wilderness thru sherman (11)
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Grant Goes EastGrant Goes East✮Takes on Lee personally✮Battle Plans
✮Attack, Attack, Attack✮He can replace losses✮Lee can’t
✮First Encounter - Wilderness
WildernessWilderness✮Grant Vs. Lee✮Virginia
✮May 6, 1864
✮Forested Area
Last Year’s Last Year’s DeadDead
WildernessWilderness✮Woods catch fire
✮Wounded who cannot move burn alive
✮Casualties✮Union - 17,500✮Confederate - 13,000
Gen. GrantGen. Grant✮Union loses more men
✮But, Grant moves forward
✮CSA can’t replace casualties✮Union can
✮Battle itself - a draw✮Next meeting - Spotsylvania
SpotsylvaniaSpotsylvania✮Tactics
✮Trenches and Rifle Pits
✮Sedgewick✮“Couldn’t hit an elephant at this
distance”✮Killed the next day
SpotsylvaniaSpotsylvania✮May 10, 1864✮Bloody Angle
✮Hand-to-hand fighting
LeeLee✮Goes to the front to rally
the men himself✮Soldiers take reigns of horse
✮Lead Lee to rear
SpotsylvaniaSpotsylvania✮5 days of rain end battle✮Heavy Casualties
✮12,000 fell in one square mile of ground
Cold HarborCold Harbor✮When Rains end Grant pursues
Lee✮June 3, 1864✮Cold Harbor
✮Confederates prepare defenses
Cold HarborCold Harbor✮US Soldiers knew attack was
suicidal✮Pinned names on back of coats
✮7-8,000 Union soldiers fell within 1 hour
Cold HarborCold Harbor✮Lee pushes Grant back
✮Escapes to Petersburg
✮Grant pursues✮Lays siege
CasualtiesCasualties✮Union
✮12,000✮Confederate
✮1,500✮Winner
✮Confederacy (Last one)
““I am killed”I am killed”
Sherman’s MarchSherman’s March✮Plan
✮March eastward to the sea, then northward to meet up with Grant
✮Capture key cities
✮Total Warfare✮Break the people’s will to fight
Total WarfareTotal Warfare
Sherman’s MarchSherman’s March✮Confederate Army tries to
stop Sherman✮Johnston
✮62,000 men
✮Doesn’t work
Gen. Gen. ShermanSherman
MarchMarch✮Sherman’s men cut a path 60
miles wide✮Everything is destroyed (Total
War)✮Factories, R/R lines, mansions,
crops, cities
Sherman’s Sherman’s NecktiesNeckties
ShermanSherman✮Army has no supply lines
✮Foragers
✮Captures Atlanta✮Sept. 2, 1864✮Burns it to the Ground
AtlantaAtlanta
Gen. Gen. ShermanSherman
ShermanSherman✮Savannah, GA is captured
✮Dec. 21, 1864✮Christmas gift to Pres.
Lincoln
✮Heads North to meet Grant✮War Ends while in NC